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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Defeat the Kaiser and His U-Boats: Victory Depends on Which Fails First, Food or Frightfulness
United States Food Administration, Educational Division, Advertising Section · United States Food Administration, Educational Division, Advertising Section, 1917
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 by the Advertising Section of the United States Food Administration's Educational Division, 1917, from the National Archives copy on Wikimedia Commons; the Library of Congress holds the same design (LCCN 2002712083).
Why it matters
The Food Administration, set up by executive order on 10 August 1917, ran the country's food while it was at war, and this sheet sets out the race: food against the U-boat war the poster calls frightfulness. The Library of Congress dates the design to 1917; the National Archives gives only 1917 to 1919.
What to notice
A dark figure, which the Library of Congress takes for the Kaiser, and a U-boat, with a burning vessel sinking in the distance.
A war of hunger, fought under the sea.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- United States Food Administration, Educational Division, Advertising Section
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, Educational Division, Advertising Section, 1917
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (Still Picture Branch), via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons
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. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-US, PD-US/en). Year set to 1917 from the Library of Congress record of the design (LCCN 2002712083); the National Archives dates it only to 1917-1919, and nothing in either record supports 1918.
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