Help your boy at the front--Use less wheat and meat--Send more to him – Vintage Print
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(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 rare vintage poster captures Help your boy at the front--Use less wheat and meat--Send more to him in remarkable 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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Help your boy at the front--Use less wheat and meat--Send more to him
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Help your boy at the front" frames this 1917 color lithograph as a direct appeal to the home kitchen, linking everyday food choices to soldiers overseas. Issued under the United States Food Administration, it asks households to use less wheat and meat so more supplies could be sent to the Allied armies and to civilians in Europe. Herbert Hoover led the agency, which was created that summer to encourage voluntary conservation through wheatless and meatless meals. Posters like this one carried that message into shops and homes, placing much of the wartime food effort on the women who planned and bought for their families.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 28 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United States Food Administration. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | United States Food Administration--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Equipment & supplies--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,522 × 3,644 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221800 |
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