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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Images 5a, b, c, d

U.S. Food Administration Posters

These posters speak to a public with presumed commonalities by referencing religious language, patriotism, the experience of immigrants and President Lincoln.

Poster artists: A. Hendee, Paul Stahr, Charles Edward Chambers, George Illian
U.S. Food Administration (USFA), Educational Division, Advertising Section, 1917.

Source: NARA, Still Pictures Records Section, Special Media Archives, College Park, MD.