Hunger - For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium Will you eat less wheat meat fats and sugar that we may still send food in ship loads? / Raleigh. – Historic Reproduction
(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 Hunger - For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium Will you eat less wheat meat fats and sugar that we may still send food in ship loads? / Raleigh.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hunger - For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium Will you eat less wheat meat fats and sugar that we may still send food in ship loads? / Raleigh.
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Its caption asks Americans to eat less wheat, meat, fats, and sugar so that food could still be shipped overseas, with Belgium as the cause. The poster is one of a numbered series issued by the United States Food Administration, the wartime agency led by Herbert Hoover to manage American food supplies. Belgium had been under German occupation since 1914, and Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium had kept millions of people fed through the war with American donations and shipments. The poster ties that effort to home-front rationing, presenting restraint at the dinner table as a direct form of help.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 74 x 54 cm. |
| Notes | No. 12. United States Food Administration. · United States Food Administration sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920. Mothers & children--1910-1920. Starvation--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,101 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 536_Hunger_For_three_years_1918 |
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