Little Americans do your bit Eat oatmeal corn meal mush [...] Save the wheat for our soldiers - Leave nothing on your plate / Cushman Parker. – Antique Wall Art
![Little Americans do your bit Eat oatmeal corn meal mush [...] Save the wheat for our soldiers - Leave nothing on your plate / Cushman Parker., 1917 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/64/6470f9a93b94-L.webp)
(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 vintage poster of Little Americans do your bit Eat oatmeal corn meal mush [...] Save the wheat for our soldiers - Leave nothing on your plate / Cushman Parker. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Little Americans do your bit Eat oatmeal corn meal mush [...] Save the wheat for our soldiers - Leave nothing on your plate / Cushman Parker.
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Children carry the message in this 1917 United States Food Administration poster, where young boys salute under the line "Little Americans, do your bit." The color lithograph, drawn by Cushman Parker, urges families to eat oatmeal and cornmeal mush and to leave nothing on their plates so that wheat could be saved for soldiers. Herbert Hoover led the Food Administration during the war, and its campaigns to cut wheat use at home were part of a larger effort to supply American troops and Allied countries. Pairing a patriotic salute with plain breakfast porridge shows how wartime sacrifice was pitched to ordinary households, and especially to their children.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 53 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | United States Food Administration. No. 21. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | United States Food Administration--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920. Cereal products--1910-1920. Saluting--1910-1920. Boys--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,792 × 4,774 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 350_Little_Americans_do_you_1917 |
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