Eat more corn, oats and rye products - ... Eat less wheat, meat, ... / L.N. Britton. – Vintage Print
![Eat more corn, oats and rye products - ... Eat less wheat, meat, ... / L.N. Britton., N.Y. : Heywood, Strasser & Voight Litho. Co., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/04/042f3b15a423-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Eat more corn, oats and rye products - ... Eat less wheat, meat, ... / L.N. Britton.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Eat more corn, oats and rye products - ... Eat less wheat, meat, ... / L.N. Britton.
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This color poster by L.N. Britton, printed in New York in 1917, sets out a direct instruction: eat more corn, oats and rye, and eat less wheat and meat. That advice reflected the wartime push to conserve staple foods. After the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, the federal Food Administration under Herbert Hoover asked households to voluntarily cut back on wheat and meat so that more could be shipped to American forces and Allied countries in Europe. Posters like this one carried the message into kitchens, schools and shops, where meatless and wheatless meals became a common expression of patriotic duty.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Heywood, Strasser & Voight Litho. Co., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. J7. 1917. No. 6. |
| Subjects | Food--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,131 × 1,472 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217016 |
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