Little Americans, Do Your Bit Eat Oatmeal, Corn Meal Mush, [...] Save The Wheat For Our Soldiers - Leave Nothing On Your Plate – Antique Print
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This rare vintage poster captures Little Americans, Do Your Bit Eat Oatmeal, Corn Meal Mush, [...] Save The Wheat For Our Soldiers - Leave Nothing On Your Plate in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Little Americans, Do Your Bit Eat Oatmeal, Corn Meal Mush, [...] Save The Wheat For Our Soldiers - Leave Nothing On Your Plate
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Few posters from the First World War speak to children as directly as this one does. Its title, "Little Americans, Do Your Bit," addresses young readers as citizens with a part to play, and the slogan urges them to eat oatmeal and cornmeal mush so that wheat can go to soldiers overseas. It was issued by the United States Food Administration, the wartime agency led by Herbert Hoover that asked households to conserve staples and reduce waste. Cushman Parker, the illustrator credited on the piece, drew on the period's view that children could influence family habits at home.
| Created / published | c. 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | poster, lithograph, color, 53 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | Cushman Parker. United States Food Administration. No. 21 |
| Original scan | 2,500 × 3,762 px · prints to 8 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223476 |
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