Your sugar ration is 2 lbs. per month / The Carey Printing Company New York. – Antique 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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Your sugar ration is 2 lbs. per month / The Carey Printing Company New York. 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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Your sugar ration is 2 lbs. per month / The Carey Printing Company New York.
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A 1917 lithograph from the Carey Printing Company of New York asks shoppers to hold their sugar purchases to 2 pounds per person each month, and it promises that the store displaying it will follow the sugar rules of the U.S. Food Administration. That agency, headed by Herbert Hoover, was created in 1917 to manage food supplies during the First World War. Its rationing was largely voluntary and aimed at sending food to England, France, and Italy, whose civilians and armies depended heavily on imports. The poster shows how the war effort reached ordinary households and local merchants, who were asked to display such pledges in their windows.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 38 x 51 cm. |
| Notes | Text continues: We must confine our consumption of Sugar to not more than 2 lbs. per person per month in order to provide a restricted ration to England France and Italy. This store is pledged to conform to the sugar regulations of the U.S. Food Administration. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Sugar--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,526 × 3,630 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1204_Your_sugar_ration_is_2_1917 |
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