Help us preserve your surplus...food – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Help us preserve your surplus...food, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few posters in the Work Projects Administration collection speak as directly to a Philadelphia household as this 1941 silkscreen, which asks residents to help preserve surplus food rather than let it spoil. The poster was produced under the Federal Art Project and credits a coalition that included Community Food Conservation Inc., church groups, a garden club, Pennsylvania State College, the Navy League, and the Philadelphia Council of Defense. Its appeal reflects the home-front effort of the early war years, when canning and preserving were encouraged as a way to stretch food supplies. Worth noticing is how the piece treats domestic food work as a civic duty.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Community Food Conservation Inc. cooperating with Philadelphia Council of Defense church organizations garden club Pennsylvania State College Navy League Service and Work Projects Administration. · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945--Social aspects--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. Food--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,762 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 908_Help_us_preserve_your_s_1941 |
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