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Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield. – Vintage Print

Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield., [1918] — vintage poster
Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield., [1918]. Vintage poster from the Barns & Farms collection.

(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 Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Its direct question, "Will you help the women of France?", sets this 1918 color lithograph apart from the many wartime pleas to eat less bread. Edward Penfield made it at a time when the United States was asking households to save wheat so more could be shipped to Europe. With many French men away at the front, women had taken on much of the farm work, and the poster links American restraint at the table to their labor in the fields.

Created / published[1918]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 29 x 48 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920.
NotesExhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007.
SubjectsWorld War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--United States--1910-1920. Farming--France--1910-1920. Women--Employment--France--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,486 × 1,500 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-223577

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