Canada Food Board recipe books – Historic 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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This vintage poster of Canada Food Board recipe books brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Canada Food Board recipe books
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The lithograph advertises the Canada Food Board's recipe books, a wartime publication aimed at home cooks, and it was printed in Montreal and Toronto by the Herald Press and Advertising Agency sometime between 1914 and 1918. Canada's food-conservation campaigns grew more urgent after the country's Food Board was established in 1917, when households were asked to cut back on wheat, meat, and fats so that more food could reach Allied troops and civilians in Europe. Posters like this one turned that request into everyday domestic advice, presenting the kitchen as a front in the war. Its bright colors and direct appeal to the home cook make it a useful window onto how governments recruited ordinary women into the war effort.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : offset lithograph, color ; 71 x 55 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Montreal ; Toronto : Herald Press and Advertising Agency, [between 1914 and 1918] |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Canada. Economic aspects of war--Canada--1910-1920. Cookery--Canada--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,231 × 1,500 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225752 |
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