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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
Food: Don't Waste It
Frederic G. Cooper (born 1883) · United States Food Administration, poster No. 1, 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 colour lithograph in lettering alone that Frederic G. Cooper designed for the United States Food Administration in 1917, No. 1 in its series, 73 by 53 cm.
Why it matters
The Food Administration ran the country's food while it was at war, and the first sheet of Cooper's series sets out six rules: buy with thought, cook with care, use less wheat and meat, buy local foods, serve just enough, use what is left.
What to notice
No picture at all: a title and a numbered list, the lettering doing the whole work.
Six rules, pinned up beside the stove.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Frederic G. Cooper (born 1883)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, poster No. 1, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002708936 · POS - US .C685, no. 4 (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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