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FOOD AND THE WAR! American Wheat to Win!
This authentic 1917 Food and the War American Wheat to Win vintage poster is an original World War I U.S. Food Administration broadside, Poster No. 22, printed by the Carey Printing Company of New York. Issued under Herbert Hoover’s Food Administration in 1917-1918, when ninety percent of Britain’s daily bread was American wheat, it embodies the famous creed that food will win the war and that voluntary conservation was second only to military action.
Unlike pictorial Gibson or Flagg designs, this certified vintage poster is pure typographic propaganda in red and blue on white, crowned by a red-white-and-blue shield emblem. The headline FOOD AND THE WAR! American Wheat to Win! leads into If food fails, we cannot hold out and send food, and we will win through, followed by dense official text: Supplying food is America’s prime responsibility, WHEAT IS THE TEST, Thus Far We Have Not Saved Enough, Wheat is the Test, and Follow Directions. As original vintage posters go, text broadsides are prized for their unfiltered wartime voice.
Printed in 1917 by the Carey Printing Company, New York, for the U.S. Food Administration, marked No. 22 and U.S. Food Administration at the lower border, this example is lithographed on wartime paper in broadside format, approx. 22 x 28 inches. Offered as an authenticated vintage poster, it is an original 1917 printing, not a reproduction, with strong red-blue color and Grade B+ to A- age-consistent handling.
What is a 1917 American Wheat to Win poster worth? As vintage Food Administration posters become scarcer, clean No. 22 examples are highly collectible. For collectors of antique posters, WWI propaganda, Hoover, and home-front history, this original vintage poster is a powerful kitchen, classroom, or history-wall document.
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