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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
Hunger: For Three Years America Has Fought Starvation in Belgium
Henry Raleigh (1880-1945) · United States Food Administration, 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 Henry Raleigh drew for the United States Food Administration in 1918, printed by the Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co. of Chicago, 74 by 54 cm, sheet No. 12.
Why it matters
The Food Administration, set up by executive order on 10 August 1917, asked households to eat less wheat, meat, fats and sugar. This sheet gives the reason in Belgium and asks whether the food may still go out in ship loads.
What to notice
Starving women and children fill the sheet, under the single word Hunger and the question put to the reader's table.
Three years of bread, owed across the water.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Henry Raleigh (1880-1945)
- Printer / house
- Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., Chicago
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War · Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719438 · POS - US .R35, 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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