Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it - Wheat is needed for the allies - waste nothing / C. E. Chambers. – Vintage Wall Art
![Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it - Wheat is needed for the allies - waste nothing / C. E. Chambers., N[ew] Y[ork] : Rusling Wood, Litho., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c8cef8f70113-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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Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it - Wheat is needed for the allies - waste nothing / C. E. Chambers. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it - Wheat is needed for the allies - waste nothing / C. E. Chambers.
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The Statue of Liberty stands under a rainbow in this poster, addressing immigrants with the line "You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it." The United States Food Administration, led by Herbert Hoover and created in 1917, issued it to ask Americans to conserve wheat and other foods for the Allies in Europe. Slogans such as "Food will win the war" and "waste nothing" were meant to reach every household, and this design appealed directly to newer residents. C. E. Chambers designed the lithograph, which Rusling Wood printed in New York.
| Created / published | N[ew] Y[ork] : Rusling Wood, Litho., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United States Food Administration. No. 18. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. Immigrants--1910-1920. Rainbows--1910-1920. Food supply--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,467 × 3,723 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223185 |
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