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Description
This poster, encouraging civilians to save scarce staples for the soldiers during World War I, reads, "Eat More/Corn, Oats and Rye/Products- Fish/and Poultry-Fruits/Vegetables and Potatoes/Baked, Boiled and/Broiled Foods/Eat Less/Wheat, Meat, Sugar and Fats/To Save for the Army/And our Allies."
It was produced by the U.S. Food Administration.
About This Item
- Title: War food conservation poster, 1917
- Creator: L. N. Britton
- Creation Date: 1917
- Subject Date: 1917
- Location: USA
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 463, #813A
- Collection: WPA broadsides relating to Maine, Massachusetts, and World War I
- Object Type: Text and Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Food supply--1910-1920
- Lithographs--Color--1910-1920
- War posters--American--1910-1920
- World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States
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