America the hope of all who suffer the dread of all who wrong Whittier. Save food and defeat frightfulness / Paus. – 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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America the hope of all who suffer the dread of all who wrong Whittier. Save food and defeat frightfulness / Paus.
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Lettering that quotes John Greenleaf Whittier and urges Americans to "Save food and defeat frightfulness" sets this 1918 lithograph apart from other wartime posters. The United States Food Administration, led by Herbert Hoover, used such images to persuade households to cut back on wheat, meat, and fats so that food could be shipped to Allied countries and troops in Europe. "Frightfulness" was the term commonly used in wartime propaganda for German conduct in the war, so the poster ties ordinary kitchen economy to a moral cause. Its pairing of a nineteenth-century American poet with a modern appeal shows how the government framed rationing as a patriotic duty.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 91 x 141 cm. |
| Notes | United States Food Administration. · Whittier John Greenleaf 1807-1892. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 967 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 961_America_the_hope_of_all_1918 |
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