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 16 (film)

Food for Fighters

This film elevates the importance of food in wartime by associating it with soldiers, scientists and scientific measurements.

OWI, c.1943.

Source:
Prelinger Film Archives, Internet Archive

Above: stills from Office of War Information film, Food for Fighters, illustrating the importance of food in wartime.
Play film below (run time: 9:50).