Exhibit Title: Beans are Bullets and Of Course I can! Food Posters from the Collection of the National Agriculture Library. SECTIONS
Overview




1.
Introduction


 2.
WWI: Citizens
as Rational and Regional 3.
WWI: Posters for
the Farm Front

4.
WWI: Illustration & Explanation,
Sobering & Dutiful 5.
Posters & Propaganda Between the Wars 6.
1930-40s-WWII: Images & Emotions, Citizens as Consumers 7.
Elevating Food, Women and Responsibility During Wartime

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Image 1

Why Is It Necessary to Eat Less Meat and Less Wheat Bread? (and detail)

Many WWI posters justified requests for changes in homefront behavior with explanations and offers of reasons why. This poster answered the title question with approximately 14 detailed paragraphs of methodical explanation and information.

U.S. Food Administration, 1917.

Source: Special Collections, National Agricultural Library