Series IV: Conservation Appeals
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Series IV: Conservation Appeals, includes posters encouraging citizens to conserve food, fuel, and other supplies for the war effort. Posters relating to Daylight Savings Time are included.
Subseries IV.1: US Fuel Administration and Misc. Fuel Conservation
Save fuel in dairy plants / Nearly onehalf the coal can be saved / Study your plant / Save the fuel
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Stand by the boys in the trenches / Mine more coal, 1918
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Soldier and miner shoulder to shoulder
Jan. 30th / Tag / your shovel / day / Has your Coal Shovel / been tagged yet?
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Shovel with tag "Save that shovelful of coal a day for Uncle Sam"
Uncle Sam says: / "Stop Sunday joyriding / and put the skids under / the Kaiser." / Save gasoline! / Sacrifice for Liberty! / Hit the Hun on high gear!
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Order your coal / now / Get it out of / Uncle Sam's way / he needs / the railways / for war
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Hand with shovelful of coal and slogan "Save that shovelful" (US Fuel Administration logo)
Save your coal / to fire the Kaiser / Here's how… / Thomas W. Russell, Commecticut Fuel Administration
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Uncle Sam and coal worker
Mine more coal / Stand by the boys in the trenchs! (same message in Italian, Polish, Hungarian, German)
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US eagle
Uncle Sam / needs that / extra shovelful
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Uncle Sam with arm on man stoking furnace with coal
Subseries IV.2: Food Conservation; US Food Administration
The Spirit of '18 / The world cry / Food / Keep the home garden going, 1918
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Farmers carrying produce / wheat
Feed a fighter / Eat only what you need / Waste nothing / That he and his family / may have enough
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Soldier in trench holding cup and saucer
Food is / Ammunition / Don't waste it
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Basket of fruit, vegetables, soldiers in background
Food will win the war / You came here seeking freedom / You must now help to preserve it / Wheat is needed for the allies / Waste nothing
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Immigrants arriving past Statue of Liberty
Save the / products of the land / Eat more fish / they feed themselves
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Fish swimming underwater
Keep it coming / "We must not only / feed our soldiers / at the front / but the millions of / women and children / behind our lines" Gen John J. Pershing
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Truckloads of food coming to the front
Blood or bread / Others are iving their blood / You will shorten the war / Save life if you eat only what / you need, and waste nothing
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Worker holding dead soldier
Food and the war! / American wheat to win! / Wheat is the test!
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This is / what God gives us / What are you giving / So that others may live? / Eat less / Wheat / Meat / Fats / Sugar / Send more to Europe / or they will starve
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Fruit, vegetables, nuts surrounding message
War / Rages in France / We must feed them / they cannot / fight and raise / food at the same time / denying our / selves only a / littl means / life to them
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War -torn village scene of civilians fleeing bombed town (printed from woodcut?)
Sir / Don't waste while / Your wife saves / Adopt the doctrine / of the clean plate
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Prosperous man at restaurant with food left on plate while he lights up a cigar, appaled waiters in background
Save / 1. Wheat / Use more corn / 2. Meat / Use more fish and beans / 3. Fats / Use just enough / 4. Sugar / Use syrups / and serve the cause of freedom
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L'Italia / Ha Bisogono / di Carnefrumento grasso e zucchero
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Head of Italian soldier
Why / loyal Americans are keeping the pledge / to eat less wheat and meat
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Don't waste food / While others starve
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Emaciated mother and chldren before bombed out church
Eat more / Corn, oats and rye / Products fish / And poultry fruits vegetables and potatoes / baked boiled and broiled fods / leat less / wheat, meat, sugar and fats / to save for the army / and our allies
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Table with fish, fruit, vegetables
Food / 1. Buy it with thought / 2. Cook it with care / 3. Use less wheat and meat / 4. Buy local foods / 5. Serve just enough / 6. Use what is left / Don't waste it
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Kosciuszko / Pulawski
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Portrait of Koscwszka
Victory is a / question of stamina / send the wheat / meat fats sugar / the fuel for fighters
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Charging (energized) soldiers
Don't / stop / saving / food
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Be patriotic / Sign your country's / pledge to save the food
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Lady Liberty reaching out
Save a loaf / a week / Help win the war
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Hand cutting a loaf of bread
Why / Is it necessary to eat less / Meat and less wheat bread?.. .. Eat plenty , wisely, without waste, and help win the war
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Cardinal Mercier / has appealed to the / Food Administration / for more food for / starving millions / France Belgium Italy
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Head of Cardinal Mercier
Raise more poultry / on farms and back yards / More eggs and pultry will save beef and pork
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Various farm scenes related to chichen breeding and egg production
Help feed yourself / Make back yard and vacant lots productive / Work a garden raise chickens
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War gardens victorious / Every garden a peace plant, 1919
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Young farmer leading "troops" of vegetables carrying a US flag
Corn / the food of the nation / Serve some way / Every meal
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Woman in kitchen with jars of cornmeal, grits, hominy, making pancakes, muffins, cereal
Twenty sheep to equip and / clothe each soldier / Boys and girls can help / Join a sheep club
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Boys and girls on sheep farm / sheep heading down path / soldiers in rear
Select seed corn / Enough for two years / For 1918 plantings and to insure adapted seed for 1919, 1917-09
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Eat more corn / the nation's most abundant cereal / Corn saved the pilgrims and fed our pioneers / corn will help us feed the world, 1017-07
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Bread, cornmeal, fish balls, lye hominy
Special appeal / to / Farmer patriots (from President Wilson dated April 10, 1917) / Farmers must feed the nation and its fighting men, 1917
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farm scenes labeled "soldiers of the commissary"
Save / Seed / Corn / Now!
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Uncle Sam and famer harvesting piles of corn
Lincoln said / Save food / for world relief
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Portrait of Lincon
Women of Connecticut / Are you helping? / Can and dry food!
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"Heroic women of France" pulling plow shares like work animals
The President says / Save food / Don't waste it
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Portrait of Wilson
Hurry! / Cull your hens / Reduce feed bills / Learn How to cull / Nonlayinng hens / a poor layer / Quits early / a good layer / Lays late / Come!! To demonstration in culling non layers
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2 hens
The Kaiser is canned / Can food / Can / Vegetables / Fruit and / the Kaiser too., 1918
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Canning jars labled tomatoes, peas, and large central jar containing the Kaiser labeled "Kaiser Brand Unsweetened"
Eat? / Then read this! / Your county farm bureau mans.. .. / .. .. Get behind the full pantry movement / Join your County Farm Bureau / Membership campaign March 3 to 10
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Do not be fooled / by the lies of the / Enemy / The US Government is not taking away / from the people / .. .. Any canned goods.. .. / or used stocks of provisions bought and kept.. .. / for family use*
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Enlist today / in / the Connecticut / Canning Corps / Help connecticut meet her quota of / 5,000,000 quarts of fruit and vegetables
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America's / Food pledge / 20 million tons / Save twothirds more than last year / from stocks no larger
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Eat cane / Syrup and / Molasses / Save sugar / By using best / Louisiana molasses / and sugar cane syrup
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Scales with sugar and molasses balancing each other
Eat more cottage cheese / You'll need / less meat
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Pot of cottage cheese / photos of cow, pig, lamb, calf, hen
Waste no food! / Food IS wasted / Demonstrate thrift in your home!
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Will you have a part / in / victory? / "Every garden a munition plant.", 1918
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Lady Liberty sowing seeds
The seeds of victory / Insure the fruits of peace, 1919
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Woman farmer with assorted vegetables with faces, legs, running away
Wheat "I'm nearly used up with this / job of feeding the world" Corn "Why don't you call on me?", 1917
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Male figure with face of globe, dressed as Uncle sam, being fed by weeping baker as wheat supply diminishes; heap of corn and corncob figure waiting as backup
New York State Food Supply Commission / Headquarters / Food Consercation / "Every ounce of food you save / is ammunition to win the war"
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2 US flags
Win the next war now / For free book on / Home canning / and / Home dryig / Write to / National War Garden Commission, 1918
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Lady Liberty canning vegetables and fruits
Girls / Join Uncle Sam's Commissary Army / Can and dry / Food, 1917 (?)
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Woman in nurses uniform saluting; surrounded by baskets of fruits and veggies and canned products
Our flags / Beat Germany / Support every flag / that opposes Prussianism / Eat less of the the food fighters need / Deny yourself something / Waste nothing
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Flags of the allies
NY State Food Supply Commission / For patriotic agriculture service / Wanted / at once men and boys.. .. / for work on farms apply to the Commissionn's County representative
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Soldier in army camp; farmer in field
Don't let up / Keep on saving feed
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Soldier looming over sinking figure of Hun
Patriotic food exhibit / at / the Mark Twain Library / Reading / Wednesday, Apr 24 / at 2 o'clock
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Kill the slacker / Spare the good birds / Old hen week / Beginning August 27, 1917 (?)
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Man chasing chicken with an axe; woman feeding hens
New England peaches / Now at their best / Provide a supply for winter use
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Boy and girl eating peaches
Stop, Look and Listen, 1917 (?)
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Railroad crossing post
Sugar means ships / The consumption of / Sugar sweetened drinks / Must be reduced
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Girl sipping drink; war in Europe rages; boats carrying soldiers to front; ships with sugar returning
Food don't waste it / 1. Use less wheat and meat / 2. Buy local foods / 3. Serve just enough / 4. Use what's left
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Our problem is to feed our allies theis winter .. .. / Our solution is to eat less of .. .. / foods of which we have an abundance, and to waste / Less of all foods
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The gospel / Of the / Clean plate / Don't waste any food
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Clean plate
Get behind our soldiers / Sailors / and our Allies. Send them the most food possible in the least shipping / Space, 1917
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Ships at sea
Save a loaf a week / Help win the war
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Knife slicing loaf of bread
Help your boy / at the front / Use less wheat and / Meat / Send more to him
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Soldier, flag at front
Eat more / Cornmeal rye flour / Oatmeal / and barley / save the wheat / for the fighters, 1918 (?)
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Cannisters of cornmeal, rye flour, oatmeal, barley; mounted soldiers (rear)
Engineer / if you are a patriot / if this is your fight / Get into it / Stop the ammonia leaks, 1918
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Uncle Sam holding wrench, encouraging worker to get up from chair
Food conservation week, December 1 to 7, 1918/ We now appeal to your sympathy for world relief / Read the Hoover message, 1918
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Little / Americans / Do your bit / Leave nothig on your plate
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Baby saluting a bowl of oatmeal
Subseries IV.3: Daylight Savings
Saving daylight / "Set the clock ahead one hour and win the war!" / ave 1,000,000 / Tons of coal by / Using an extra / Hour of daylight!
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Uncle Sam shoveling coal; small soldier with face of clock set to daylight savings time
"Saving daylight!" / Gain an hour / of daylight / "Just set the clock ahead one hour, / Uncle no longer working day for / Anybody but all of it in daylight. / Use the extra hour of daylight for your country"
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Uncle Sam turning the clock ahead (on body of soldier)
Saving Daylight! / "Set the clock ahead / One hour and / Win the war!" / Uncle Sam, your enemies hav been up and are at / Work on the extra hour of daylight when will you wake up?
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Uncle Sam waking up at 8 AM; in background German and Austrian soldiers already at work; small figure withface of clock pointing to them
"Saving daylight" / Let your congressman know you / Favor the law to start eight / Hour day's work at 7 o'clock AM / and end it at 4 o'clock PM
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Saving Daylight / "Set the clock ahead / one hour and / wint he war!" / Mobilize an extra / Hour of daylight and / Help win the war
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Uncle Sam holding hoe and rifle marching behind small soldier with face of Day Light Savings Clock
Subseries IV.4: US Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
The tidal wave / July 4, 1918 / 95 ships launched, 1918
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Fleet of ships and tidal wave of infantry soldiers on horesback; planes
Mechanincs wanted to / Volunteer as needed for / Government ship building / "Ships, ships / and / More ships!" / "Ships will win the war!" / Descriptive circular in side
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Uncle Sam behinnd shipbulder and a fleet of ships
Man those ships! / Enroll here for / the Merchant Marines
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Eagle soaring above US ships sailing out of harbor
Our country needs ships / Be true to the boys who are / Giving their lives for you
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Shipbuilding scene
To everyone / in this plant .. .. / Our country is depending on you
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Shipbuilding scene
The ships are coming / On the job for victory
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Ships at sea
On the job for victory
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Rivetter in shipyard
Are you working / With Schwab? / Charles M. Schwab / Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation / Says / "I want all the men in the shipyards / to feel that they are workig with me, not for me"
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CS at shipyard with workmen
Make every minute count for Pershing
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Shipbuilder putting on rivets