Eat more cornmeal, rye flour, oatmeal, and barley--Save the wheat for the fighters / Adolph Treidler. – Vintage Print
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Step back in time with Eat more cornmeal, rye flour, oatmeal, and barley--Save the wheat for the fighters / Adolph Treidler., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This poster by Adolph Treidler urges Americans to eat cornmeal, rye flour, oatmeal, and barley so that wheat could go to the fighting forces. Printed in New York in 1917, it is one of the numbered posters issued by the United States Food Administration, the wartime agency headed by Herbert Hoover. That year, Congress gave the agency authority to regulate food supplies, and wheat was in high demand to feed troops and Allied countries in Europe. Posters like this one asked ordinary households to make small changes at the dinner table as a form of patriotic service.
| Created / published | N[ew] Y[ork] : The U.S. Print & Lith. Co., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 28 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United States Food Administration. No. 103. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States Food Administration--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Equipment & supplies--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920. Grains--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,443 × 3,585 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221801 |
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