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Auction History Result

8a055 EAT MORE CORN 16x29 WWI war poster '17 food rationing, grits & hominy!

Date Sold 2/2/2012
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An Original Vintage Folded World War I Poster (measures 16" x 29 1/4" [41 x 74 cm]) (Learn More)

Eat More Corn, the 1917 U.S. World War I (WWI) Home Front Department of Agriculture poster ("Corn saved the Pilgrims and fed our pioneers, corn will help us feed the world"; "Corn meal - hominy grits - samp"; "The nation's most abundant cereal"; "Palatable and nutritious in itself"; "The best and most available substitute for wheat"; "Eat some corn to-day"; "The United States Department of Agriculture will furnish you with recipes for using corn"; "For breakfast, luncheon, dinner"; "Your family is missing delicious, nourishing, economical food if you are not serving corn-meal dishes in your home"; "Write to-day for farmers' bulletin 565"; "The United States Department of Agriculture will send you free this Farmers' Bulletin, 'corn meal as a food and ways of using it.' This booklet gives explicit directions for making all the dishes mentioned, and many others."; "Try a wheatless meal to-morrow") encouraging people to eat more corn based food for the purpose of extending wheat supplies, and featuring photos of yeast bread, corn-meal fish balls, and hominy
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube.

Condition: very good to fine. There is pencil writing in the right of the bottom edge of the poster. The poster is otherwise in very nice condition, especially considering its age, and it displays well.
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