Avec la carte nous en aurons peu mais nous en aurons tous. Casse aujourdhui ton sucre en deux pour en avoir demain? – Antique Print
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Avec la carte nous en aurons peu mais nous en aurons tous. Casse aujourdhui ton sucre en deux pour en avoir demain?
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Yvonne Colas, a 15-year-old pupil at a girls' school, signed this 1918 French color lithograph, which was sponsored by the Comité de Prévoyance et d'Économies. Its title, roughly "With rationing we will have little, but we will all have some," asks readers to cut their sugar in half today so there will be some tomorrow. By 1918 France had been at war for four years, and staples were strictly limited, so saving at home was presented as a patriotic duty. The poster's appeal to a schoolgirl's hand shows how wartime economy reached into classrooms as well as households.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 56 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: With rationing we will have little but we will all have some. Cut your sugar in half today so you will have some for tomorrow. Signed: Yvonne Colas 15 ans cole de filles. Sponsored by the Comiteacute de Preacutevoyance et dEacuteconomies. Promotional goal: Fr. J72. 1918. Item is no. 218 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. BZZ · Marqueacutes Reneacute. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--France. Daggers & swords--1910-1920. Sugar--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,791 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 669_Avec_la_carte_nous_en_a_1918 |
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