Our allies need eggs. Your farm can help / Herbert Bayer. – Antique Print
(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 allies need eggs. Your farm can help / Herbert Bayer., a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Our allies need eggs. Your farm can help / Herbert Bayer.
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Herbert Bayer's silkscreen asks farmers to help feed the Allies by producing eggs, a wartime appeal that sets it apart from the other food-themed posters on this board. Bayer, a Bauhaus-trained designer who had moved from Europe to the United States in 1938, made it for the WPA War Services program in New York, which the catalog dates between 1940 and 1943. Britain and other Allies depended on American food shipments in those years, and the poster links the farm's daily work to that effort. Its color and simplified forms show the modernist style Bayer brought to public design.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [New York] : NYC WPA War Services, [between 1940 and 1943] |
| Subjects | Eggs--1940-1950. War work--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945,--Economic & industrial aspects. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 9,088 × 6,228 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif12899_OuralliesneedeggsYourfarmcanhe |
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