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Headquarters food conservation Selection, preparation, preservation. – Historic Print

Headquarters food conservation Selection, preparation, preservation., [1917] — vintage poster
Headquarters food conservation Selection, preparation, preservation., [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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Few wartime posters put the home kitchen so squarely at the center of national duty as this color lithograph, which is headed "Headquarters food conservation." Its three watchwords, selection, preparation and preservation, lay out the steps a household was asked to take so that less food went to waste. In 1917, as American and Allied armies needed grain, meat and sugar shipped overseas, government and state agencies urged families to observe wheatless and meatless days and to can and dry what they grew. The poster belongs to the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection, and its color printing reflects how lithography was used to produce large runs of public messages.

Created / published[1917]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 50 x 38 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920.
NotesForms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
SubjectsNew York State Food Supply Commission--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,738 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference979_Headquarters_food_conse_1917

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