Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Political (Greg Smart -- unprocessed)
GUSN-195499
This trade card for the United States Food Administration promotes food conservation and discourages waste. A shopping basket is packed with loaves of bread, sugarcubes in a box, meat, butter, and greens. The front text reads: "He who wastes - prolongs the war. Save wheat, sugar, meat, fats." The back text reads: "Corn meal is cheaper than wheat flour. Corn meal is the first substitute to go below the price of wheat flour. All who can are asked to use NO wheat flour until the next harvest in September. Hominy, samp, and corn-flakes are all CORN. Henry B. Endicott, Food Administrator." Established as an agency in 1917, the United States Food Administration "regulated the supply, distribution, and conservation of foods. [It] bought and sold grain and sugar and their products through two subsidiaries, the Food Administration Grain Corporation (U.S. Grain Corporation) and the U.S. Sugar Equalization Board, Inc." It was abolished in 1920.
agencies
federal government
sugar
bread
world wars
advertising
trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
DigitalID 000612
AccessID 844
Other identifier HNEDID-000612
1 trade card
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.092.01.01.001
1917-1920
Europe
Massachusetts (United States)
United States
United States Food Administration (publisher)
trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
Endicott, H. B.
butter
corn meal
flour
food conservation
meat
World War, 1914-1918
Item
Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Political (Greg Smart -- unprocessed)
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