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Lot 510
Sale 1005 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Mar 1, 2022
Lots Close
Mar 8, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$200 -
300
Price Realized
$156
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Lot Description
[World War I]. A group of 5 posters produced by the US Food Administration promoting food conservation, comprising:
MORGAN, Wallace, artist. Feed a Fighter / Eat Only what You Need - / Waste Nothing - / That He and his Family May Have Enough. Cincinnati and New York: The Strobridge Lith. Co., 1918. "No. 15" printed lower left. -- HENDEE, A., artist. This Is What God Gives Us / What Are You Giving So That Others May Live? / East Less Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar / Send more to Europe or they will Starve. Chicago: Edwards & Deutsch Litho Co., 1917. "No. 17" printed lower left. -- ILLION, artist. Keep it Coming / "We must not only feed our soldiers at the front but the millions of women & children behind our lines" Gen. John J. Pershing / Waste Nothing. New York: The W.F. Powers Co. Litho, 1918. "No. 14" printed lower left. --RALEIGH, Henry, artist. Hunger / For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium. Chicago: Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., 1918. "No. 12" printed lower left. --CLINKER, L.C. and M.J. DWYER, artists. Don't Waste Food While Others Starve! New York: Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co., 1917. "No. 31" printed lower left. -- Together, 5 posters, each approx. 21 x 29 or smaller. Conditions vary, though most have some moderate ripping and tearing extending from edges and corners including paper loss in some cases (Keep it Coming with significant loss to right edge), few with pinholes and discoloration to edges.
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