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 6
Help Feed Yourself
This poster emphasizes self-reliance and conscientious consumption with the reminders, “Somebody has to raise or pack everything you eat,” “Do your share!” and “Make saving, rather than spending, your social standard.”
USDA, 1917.
Source: Special Collections, National Agricultural Library
