Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield. – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield.
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Edward Penfield's 1918 poster asks Americans to help the women of France by saving wheat, a plea aimed at households far from the front. French farms had lost many men to the war, so women were working the fields and needed support from abroad. The message tied the wartime effort to conserve wheat, promoted by the U.S. Food Administration under Herbert Hoover, to the food supply of Allied Europe. Penfield was one of the most admired American poster artists of his era, and his work shows how wartime propaganda linked everyday choices at home to the labor of women overseas.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 29 x 48 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. W.P. 7. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--United States--1910-1920. Farming--France--1910-1920. Women--Employment--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,444 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 990_Will_you_help_the_women_1918 |
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