Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield. – Historic 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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Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield.
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Edward Penfield's 1918 lithograph asks American viewers to help the women of France by saving wheat, a plea that tied the home front to the farms of an ally at war. With so many French men away fighting, women had taken over much of the field work that kept the country fed, and the United States, which had its own wheat to send, was urged to conserve flour so that surplus could cross the Atlantic. Penfield, a well-known illustrator of the era, was among the artists the federal government recruited to produce posters that made food rationing feel like a personal contribution to the war effort.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 29 x 48 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. W.P. 7. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--United States--1910-1920. Farming--France--1910-1920. Women--Employment--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 935 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 876_Will_you_help_the_women_1918 |
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