UNCLE SAM keeps your rent down YOU MUST keep your home up!" -- Urging WWII Housewives to Maintain Homes to Support the War Effort

Washington, D.C.: Office of Price Administration, 1940. Good. Toning, nicks/minor short tears, modern paper repairs.. A WWII-era pamphlet issued to housewives, urging them to conserve materials and practice preventative home maintenance to support the war effort: "Today America's homes are priceless, because they are irreplaceable. In every home, in every room there is some critical material that has gone to war." Materials such as rubber and metal were conserved to support the war effort, making home maintenance and conserving materials a patriotic act. Offers tips for interior and exterior maintenance, ranging from gutter cleaning to keeping floors waxed. Issued to renters, and includes a brief list of facts about rent control in the U.S. at the end of the pamphlet. Single vol. (8" by 3.5"), pp. 16, in-text cartoon images illustrating some of the tips, in original self wrps with illustration of two women holding brooms on the front. The Office of Price Administration was a government agency created in WWII to promote rationing and combat inflation of consumer goods. It was abolished in 1947, and its functions were absorbed by other agencies.