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Original U.S. WWI Poster - They Are Giving All Will you send them Wheat? by Harvey Dunn
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Original Item: Only One Available. Original WW1 poster: They are giving all ... Will you send them Wheat? U. S. Food Administration. Artist: Harvey Dunn. Size 35.5" x 55". Original World War 1 stone lithograph; archival linen backed; ready to frame.
Designed for the U. S. Food administration by the division of pictorial publicity. No. 25. A poster produced by the U.S. Food Administration during World War I. “There was a feeling that the troops deserved white bread, and the rest of us could add cornmeal or rye flour,” says Joanne Lamb Hayes, author of Grandma’s Wartime Kitchen. (Harvey Dunn/U.S. Food Administration/Library of Congress)
Finding bread alternatives may seem like a thoroughly modern obsession. (Can someone pass the chia-millet rolls?) But the widespread search for substitutes to white flour, in particular, dates back at least a century, to World War I, when Allied forces aggressively urged consumers to change their starchy habits for nationalistic reasons.
On one hand, bread was symbolically important: It conjured ideas of comfort that were especially welcome during a time of fear and turmoil. The act of sharing a loaf — literally breaking bread together — carried psychological weight.
This They Are Giving All Will you send them Wheat? is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. This poster is conservation mounted, linen backed to preserve and protect the poster, and in very good condition.
Designed for the U. S. Food administration by the division of pictorial publicity. No. 25. A poster produced by the U.S. Food Administration during World War I. “There was a feeling that the troops deserved white bread, and the rest of us could add cornmeal or rye flour,” says Joanne Lamb Hayes, author of Grandma’s Wartime Kitchen. (Harvey Dunn/U.S. Food Administration/Library of Congress)
Finding bread alternatives may seem like a thoroughly modern obsession. (Can someone pass the chia-millet rolls?) But the widespread search for substitutes to white flour, in particular, dates back at least a century, to World War I, when Allied forces aggressively urged consumers to change their starchy habits for nationalistic reasons.
On one hand, bread was symbolically important: It conjured ideas of comfort that were especially welcome during a time of fear and turmoil. The act of sharing a loaf — literally breaking bread together — carried psychological weight.
This They Are Giving All Will you send them Wheat? is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. This poster is conservation mounted, linen backed to preserve and protect the poster, and in very good condition.
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