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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
How to Shop with Ration Book Two
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of Price Administration, 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
An instruction poster issued by the Office of Price Administration in a horizontal format, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-1023, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
Rationing came to the United States in stages during the war and lasted until June 1946, and each new ration book needed teaching to the shoppers who carried it.
What to notice
A how-to title, and the imprint of the Office of Price Administration, the agency that issued the books.
The grocery list, rewritten by the war.
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
- Office of Price Administration, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 514549, local id 44-PA-1023), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514549 · 44-PA-1023
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 514549, 44-PA-1023): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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