Save a loaf a week help win the war – Antique Print
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A window into the past: Save a loaf a week help win the war, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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This 1917 lithograph asks for a modest sacrifice: one loaf a week saved for the war effort. It was issued by the U.S. Food Administration, the wartime agency Congress created in August 1917 under Herbert Hoover, and it is the third poster in that agency's numbered series. Printed by W. F. Powers Co. of New York, it appeared as the country entered the First World War and wheat was needed to feed American troops and Allied Europe. Households were encouraged to conserve wheat bread by using substitutes such as corn, rye and barley flours.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Original scan | 1,131 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 354_Save_a_loaf_a_week_hel_1917 |
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