The spirit of '18--The world cry, food--Keep the home garden going / Wm. McKee. – Vintage Print
![The spirit of '18--The world cry, food--Keep the home garden going / Wm. McKee., Boston : Forbes, [1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f4/f4683b157962-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of The spirit of '18--The world cry, food--Keep the home garden going / Wm. McKee.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The spirit of '18--The world cry, food--Keep the home garden going / Wm. McKee.
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The poster's slogan, "The world cry food," asks Americans to keep their home gardens producing through 1918, the last full year of the war. It was designed for the United States Food Administration, the agency Herbert Hoover directed after its creation in 1917 to manage food supplies for the Allies and for the home front. Posters like this one promoted voluntary conservation, including meatless and wheatless days, and encouraged families to grow their own vegetables so that more commercial food could be shipped overseas. William McKee's design shows how the government turned commercial illustration into a tool for reaching ordinary households.
| Created / published | Boston : Forbes, [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Designed for the United States Food Administration. No. 24. Promotional goal: U.S.A1.J7. 1918. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,159 × 1,465 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218346 |
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