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- Description:
- World War I poster with the message, "Sir - don't waste while your wife saves. Adopt the doctrine of the clean plate - do your share." The poster has a red and black sketch of a heavy man who is seated at a table and is eating a full meal while busy waiters walk by in the background. The artist's name, "Crawford Young," is shown at the lower right corner of the sketch. Additional printed text along the bottom shows "United States Food Administration." Small printed text in the lower left corner of the poster shows "No. 20." Small printed text in the lower right corner shows "The W. F. Powers Co., Litho., N.Y."
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- World War I poster entitled, "Blood or Bread" with the message, "Others are giving their blood. You will shorten the war - save life if you eat only what you need, and waste nothing." The poster shows a charcoal sketch with dark colors that shows a soldier carrying a wounded comrade. The artist's last name, "Raleigh," can be seen at the lower right corner of the sketch. Additional text along the bottom of the poster shows "United States Food Administration." Small printed text in the lower left corner shows "No. 16." Small printed text in the lower right corner shows "Forbes, Boston."
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- World War I poster with the message, "Victory is a Question of Stamina. Send - the Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar - the fuel for Fighters." The poster shows a color drawing of two infantrymen who are charging across a snow-covered field. The artist's name, "Harvey Dunn, 1917," is shown near the lower right corner of the drawing. "United States Food Administration" is printed in black text along the bottom of the poster.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- World War I poster with the messages, "Will You Help the Women of France?" and "Save Wheat." The color poster shows a drawing of three women who are pulling a rudimentary plow across a field. Printed text along the bottom of the poster shows "They are struggling against starvation and are going to feed not only themselves and children; but their husbands and sons who are fighting in the trenches." The poster was designed for the United States Food Administration by Edward Penfield whose name is shown in the lower left corner of the drawing.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- World War I poster with the messages, "Sugar Means Ships" and "The Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Drinks Must Be Reduced." The poster shows a sketch of a woman who is drinking from a straw that is causing sugar-laden ships to be diverted to the United States which would have otherwise been available to carry supplies for the war effort in Europe. Additional printed text notes "For your beverages 400 million lbs. of sugar were imported in ships last year. Every ship is needed to carry soldiers and supplies now." The artist's name, "E. Fuhr," is shown near the lower left corner of the sketch. Small printed text in the upper left corner of the poster shows "United States Food Administration." Small printed text in the lower left corner shows "The Carey Printing Company, New York."
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- World War I poster with the messages, "Will You Help the Women of France?" and "Save Wheat." The color poster shows a drawing of three women who are pulling a rudimentary plow across a field. Printed text along the bottom of the poster shows "They are struggling against starvation and are going to feed not only themselves and children; but their husbands and sons who are fighting in the trenches." The poster was designed for the United States Food Administration by Edward Penfield whose name is shown in the lower left corner of the drawing.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- World War I poster with the message, "Sugar - Save It." The poster is printed in red and black text on a light green background. Printed text along the bottom shows "United States Food Administration." Small printed text in the lower left corner shows "No. 28 B."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Poster printed in black, blue, red, orange, and gray on cardboard. Shows a drawing at top left of ships and submarines on a dark sea. Text, printed in blue, orange, and red on a black background reads "Get behind our Solders, Sailors and our Allies. Send them the most food possible in the least shipping space. Do it by eating less what, beef, pork, fats and sugar." Text along the bottom border, printed in blue on a black background, reads "United States Food Administration." The artist's name and date, "Rienecke Beckman 1917," is printed on the top left.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
