Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity – Vintage Print
![Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity, [Washington, D.C.] : Government Printing Office, 1942. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/96/96546b07f847-L.webp)
(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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Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity
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Titled "Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity," this color poster was printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington in 1942, when the country was newly at war and food was becoming a matter of national planning. Meat was in high demand for American troops and for Allied nations receiving U.S. supplies, so the government asked civilians to cut back voluntarily before formal rationing arrived. Posters like this one used short, direct appeals and bold color to frame restraint at the dinner table as a patriotic duty. The poster also shows how the home front was asked to take part in the war effort.
| Created / published | [Washington, D.C.] : Government Printing Office, 1942. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-489556. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Meat--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,140 × 1,444 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218333 |
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