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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
Feed a Fighter: Eat Only What You Need, Waste Nothing
Wallace Morgan · United States Food Administration, sheet No. 15, 1918
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 colour lithograph Wallace Morgan drew for the United States Food Administration in 1918, 74 by 53 cm, sheet No. 15.
Why it matters
The sheet asks households to eat only what they need so that the soldier and his family may have enough. Morgan was a war artist for the United States Army in the First World War.
What to notice
A soldier in a trench, holding a cup.
One cup, filled from a kitchen at home.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Wallace Morgan
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, sheet No. 15, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719773 · POS - US .M672, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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