Our problem is to feed our allies this winter by sending them as much food as we can [...] – Vintage Print
![Our problem is to feed our allies this winter by sending them as much food as we can [...], [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/33/33396cb28da1-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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Step back in time with Our problem is to feed our allies this winter by sending them as much food as we can [...], a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Text alone carries the appeal in this 1917 lithograph from the United States Food Administration, which asks Americans to send concentrated foods overseas rather than eat them at home. The poster names wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar as the staples most useful to Allied nations because they pack the most nutrition into the least cargo space. Its remedy was practical: eat less of those goods, eat more of the foods the country had in abundance, and waste less of everything. Herbert Hoover's agency, created that year to manage food supplies during the war, used posters like this one to bring rationing into ordinary kitchens.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 28 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Text continues: ... of the most concentrated nutritive value in the least shipping space. These foods are wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar. Our solution is to eat less of these and more of other foods of which we have an abundance, and to waste less of all foods. The United States Food Administration. No. 108. Poster is text only. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States Food Administration--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Equipment & supplies--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,433 × 3,595 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221807 |
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