Eat cane syrup and molasses, Save sugar Accession Number: ARTV00387

Description

United States First World War poster issued by the United States Food Administration. One of many posters instructing Americans on alternatives to rationed food this urges the use of molasses and sugar cane syrup as alternative sweetners to sugar. It depicts a balanced scale with a sugar pot on the left and a jug of molasses on the right. This is set against a black background with silhouettes of marching infantry in a border along the top and the text in the lower half of the poster. Voluntary sugar rations were set at 2 pounds per person per month with the aim to send the excess to Europe.

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Accession Number
ARTV00387
Artist
Unknown
Publisher
United States Food Administration
Printer
Magill - Weinsheimer Co.
Classification
Art
Object Type
Poster
Measurement
Overall: 71.2 cm x 53.2 cm
Medium
chromolithograph on paper
Date Made
c.1917 -1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Acquired 1979
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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