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Poster

Save the products of the Land

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of fish swimming underwater among seaweed. Advocates eating fish rather than other meat sources. The rest of the text reads: "E...
Poster

Blood or Bread

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man holding up a wounded soldier, with an artillery cannon in the background. Text reads: "Blood or Bread. Others are giv...
Poster

War Rages in France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of refugees moving along a ruined street; one woman is wearing a nun's habit. Text reads: "They cannot fight & raise food at th...
Poster

The Spirit of '18

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration imitating Archibald Willard's "The Spirit of '76," here with the three men carrying food. Text reads: "The World Cry, Food, Kee...
Poster

Sir — don't waste

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man eating at a table in a restaurant and smoking a cigar. Food is still on the plates in front of him. Male waiters in th...
Poster

Feed a Fighter

Date: 1918
Description: Charcoal drawing illustration of a soldier in a trench, holding a cup. Other soldiers are behind him. Text reads: "Feed a Fighter. Eat only what you need —...
Poster

Sugar means Ships

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a woman drinking out of a glass with a straw, while below her miniaturized ships labeled "ARMS," "FOOD," "SOLDIERS" and "SU...
Photograph

The Ships are Coming

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a bird's-eye view of a large bald eagle flying over a convoy of ships, which are headed towards a fire or explosion over the...
Poster

Teamwork Wins

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of several men working in a shipyard. In the background is an American flag. The text at the bottom reads: "United States Ship...
Poster

Are You Working with Schwab?

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of Charles Schwab overseeing men who are working in a shipyard. Text reads: "Charles M. Schwab, Director General of the Emerg...
Poster

Make Every Minute Count for Pershing

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man riveting a ship in a shipyard. Text at bottom reads: "United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation."
Poster

Every Business Has Three Partners

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with cartoon depicting three men armed with bayoneted rifles, standing in front of a pillar, with factory buildings in the background. The men are w...
Poster

62,000 Laws

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoons under the headline. The cartoon on the left is titled: "Snowed Under," and displays a truck labeled American Indu$trie$ stalled in...
Poster

Boost Your Job!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoons under the headline. The cartoon on the left shows a man is nailing a sign to a padlocked door, which is labeled "Opportunity." The...
Poster

We Are Human 'Round Here

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first, at top left, a man in a suit has his hand on the shoulder of a man in overalls and is asking, "Do you find th...
Poster

This Town Is Your Home

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first, silhouetted figures are working in the yard in front of a large house with a public school and a factory with...
Poster

When You Attack Men Who Maintain Pay Rolls

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the one on the left, a man wearing a hat and smoking a cigar is carrying a sack labeled "Agitator." He is demanding of a...
Poster

Criticism

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the one on the left, an oversized man is getting ready to swing a sledgehammer, which is labeled "Misunderstanding," get...
Poster

Good Business Law

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first panel on the left, a man is sing at a desk with a roll labeled "Plans" and saying to another man, who is stand...
Poster

Mr. Consumer

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the panel on the left, a man in a military uniform, labeled "General Business," is forced to dance by a hand firing a gu...

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