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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Americans! Share the Meat
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Foods Requirement Committee, War Production Board, OWI Poster No. 10, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A poster issued by the Foods Requirement Committee of the War Production Board as OWI Poster No. 10, under the name of Claude R. Wickard, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-354 and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
Rationing came to the United States in stages during the war and did not fully end until June 1946. Wickard, the Secretary of Agriculture, put his name to the appeal.
What to notice
The imprint, Foods Requirement Committee, War Production Board, Claude R. Wickard, OWI Poster No. 10.
The Sunday roast, divided with the front.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Foods Requirement Committee, War Production Board, OWI Poster No. 10, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513804, local id 44-PA-354), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513804 · 44-PA-354
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 513804, 44-PA-354): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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