Defeat the Kaiser and his U-boats--Victory depends on which fails first food or frightfulness--Waste nothing / Steele United States Food Administration. – Vintage 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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Defeat the Kaiser and his U-boats--Victory depends on which fails first food or frightfulness--Waste nothing / Steele United States Food Administration. 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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Defeat the Kaiser and his U-boats--Victory depends on which fails first food or frightfulness--Waste nothing / Steele United States Food Administration.
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Few wartime posters set the kitchen and the submarine side by side as directly as this one, which casts the struggle as a contest between American food supplies and German "frightfulness," the term used for the Kaiser's campaign of terror at sea. Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 sank many merchant ships bound for Britain and France, and after the United States entered the war that April, Americans were asked to save wheat, meat, fats and sugar for export. The poster appeared in the year Herbert Hoover directed the newly created U.S. Food Administration, which urged households to "waste nothing" as their part in the war effort.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 54 x 36 cm. |
| Notes | OC. · Whittier John Greenleaf 1807-1892. |
| Subjects | United States Food Administration--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Naval warfare--1910-1920. Food supply--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,019 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 966_Defeat_the_Kaiser_and_h_1917 |
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