WW I Posters: Eat Less Wheat/Beef/Pork/Fats and Sugar Digital History ID 2844

WW I Posters: Eat Less Wheat/Beef/Pork/Fats and Sugar

Credit: Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College
Media type: poster
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Annotation: The war effort involved asking Americans to support the soldiers by conserving and rationing food so that food could be sent to the servicemen overseas. Herbert Hoover, head of the U.S. Food Administration, claimed that, "Food would win the war."
Year: 1917

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