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Eat more corn oats and rye products - ... Eat less wheat meat ... / L.N. Britton. – Historic Print

Eat more corn oats and rye products - ... Eat less wheat meat ... / L.N. Britton., 1917 — vintage poster
Eat more corn oats and rye products - ... Eat less wheat meat ... / L.N. Britton., 1917. Vintage poster from the World War I 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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A window into the past: Eat more corn oats and rye products - ... Eat less wheat meat ... / L.N. Britton., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Its message is a simple swap: eat more corn, oats and rye, and less wheat and meat. Issued under the United States Food Administration, the poster belongs to the wartime effort to conserve staple foods after the country entered World War I in April 1917. Wheat and meat were in heavy demand to feed American troops and civilians in Allied countries, so households were asked to substitute other grains and observe meatless and wheatless days. Posters like this one carried that request into homes, shop windows and schools.

Created / published1917
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. J7. 1917. No. 6. · United States. Food Administration funder/sponsor.
SubjectsFood--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters
Original scan1,136 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference991_Eat_more_corn_oats_and_1917

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