Canadas pork opportunity / E. Henderson. – 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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This rare vintage poster captures Canadas pork opportunity / E. Henderson. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Canadas pork opportunity / E. Henderson.
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Canada's pork opportunity is a color lithograph by E. Henderson that presents hog raising as a patriotic duty for Canadian farmers. It was sponsored by the Canada Food Board, the wartime agency that urged producers to grow and ship more food to Britain and the Allied armies. Pork and bacon were valuable exports across the Atlantic, so the poster linked ordinary farm work to the war effort. Appeals like this one were a common part of Canadian home-front propaganda, which relied on posters and rural outreach to reach producers.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 62 x 46 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · Canada Food Board funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Canada. Economic aspects of war--Canada--1910-1920. Agricultural productivity--Canada--1910-1920. Swine--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,908 × 6,145 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 19_Canadas_pork_opportunit_1914 |
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