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 5 Image Gallery

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Image 1

Is this Your Home? Put Running Water in Your House

Stylistically, this poster looks like many produced during WWI. It illustrates the large effort to modernize farmsteads after WWI, one of many ways the Extension Service assisted farmers.

Home Economic Division, Extension Service, Colorado Agricultural College, c.1910-20.

Source: Special Collections, National Agricultural Library