Food is Ammunition. Don't waste it!, circa 1918

Item — Folder: 17

Identifier: A1999-081-002

Scope and Contents

Basket of fruit and vegetables with soliders' on horseback in the background

Dates

Creation: circa 1918

Creator

Sheridan, John E., 1880-1948 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Full Extent

1 item/s : Chromolithograph on paper ; overall: 29 x 21 in.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Exhibition Label

Object labels, "'Americans, Do Your Bit': World War I in Posters" Opened 3 June 2017

Food Is Ammunition, 1917-1919 John E. Sheridan (1880-1948) Printed by Heywood Strasser & Voight Litho Co. New York Gift of Diana Korzenik and Andrew S. Dibner, A98/81/02

When America declared war on Germany in April of 1917, artists stood at the ready. Members of the New York-based Society of Illustrators offered their services to help get the government"s message out in poster form. These volunteer artists who had previously illustrated stories for newspapers, magazines and book publishers formed the Division of Pictorial Publicity of the Committee on Public Information. The core group met weekly in New York to receive assignments and send completed concepts to Washington. In twenty months the Division created hundreds of advertisements, cartoons, window cards, subway car cardsand 700 poster designs.