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

Section 4 Image Gallery

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Image 10, 10b

Enlist Now Join the United States School Garden Army
and
Be a Soldier of the Soil

The poster recruiting children for the School Garden Army echoed the sentiments and messages in the posters aimed at adults (on right).

Artist: Edward Penfield
Bureau of Education, Department of Interior, c.1917,
and National Garden Commission, c.1917.

Source: Special Collections, National Agricultural Library