Canadas beef opportunity – Historic Reproduction
(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 Canadas beef opportunity brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Canada's beef opportunity" presents wartime livestock production as a chance for Canadian farmers, not only a patriotic duty, and names the Canada Food Board as its sponsor. The Board was the federal agency created in 1917 to manage food supplies for the home front and the Allied countries, which depended heavily on imported meat during the war. Color lithograph posters like this one used direct, upbeat messages to encourage farmers to expand their herds. Its framing of beef as an economic opportunity shows how wartime appeals tied national need to private profit.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 61 x 46 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · Canada Food Board funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Canada. Economic aspects of war--Canada--1910-1920. Agricultural productivity--Canada--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,931 × 6,118 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 16_Canadas_beef_opportunit_1914 |
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