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First Wold War United States poster issued by the National War Gardens Commission (NWGC) in 1918. The National War Gardens Commission was established in the United States in March 1917 (one month before the United States entered the war) by forester and conservationist Charles Lathrop Pack in response to the European food shortages and decline in American agricultural production. He wanted the NWGC to support the war effort by increasing food supply by inspiring citizens to plant war gardens, to teach them how to do it, and to educate them to conserve by canning and drying all food they could not use while fresh. This poster was part of a huge launch campaign of posters, cookbooks, manuals, poems, free booklets and signs throughout out the United States and internationally. It features the image of a girl, dressed in the United States flag, holding a jar of fruit, with fruit and vegetables on table in front of her. In a way displaying the 'fruits of her labour' which will also help win the War. From the outset the United States School Garden Army allied itself with the National War Garden Commission for the conduct of the work for which it had been organized. This affiliation covered not only food production through gardening but also the work of food conservation through home canning and drying. Leonebel Jacobs (1883-1967) was a painter and artist. She was best known as a portrait painter who painted Herbert Hoover and Chinese Emperor Pu Ti, among others.
United States First World War poster issued by the United States Food Administration in 1917. It features an expressive painting by Harvey Dunn in the top half of two soldiers at the front line advanc
A United States First World War poster issued by the United States Food Administration (poster No.17) in 1918. Depicts an abundant tableaux of brightly coloured fruit and vegetables. The text is posit
American First World War poster issued by the United States Food Administration. Printed in sepia it features a central photograph depicting three French Women dragging a large plough. The title frame
American First World War poster depicting a woman serving corn, with corn cakes, pancakes and containers of syrup, corn meal, etc in front of her. The poster was produced by the United States Food Adm
Australian Second World War poster, produced by the Commonwealth Food Control, for the Goulburn Vallery in Victoria, depicting two images. The first is of a woman canning fruit, the second of soldiers
First World War poster issued by the United States Food Administration. It features an image of a starving woman and her children standing in front of the bombed ruins of a cathedral. The title and te