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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
Sir, Don't Waste While Your Wife Saves: Adopt the Doctrine of the Clean Plate
William Crawford Young (born 1886) · United States Food Administration, 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 William Crawford Young drew for the United States Food Administration in 1917, 74 by 53 cm, sheet No. 20.
Why it matters
The Food Administration asked every household to save, and this sheet turns on the man who eats out, with the doctrine of the clean plate and the order to do his share.
What to notice
A portly man eating and smoking a cigar in a restaurant, the satire aimed at the diner himself.
A cigar and a full plate, caught in public.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- William Crawford Young (born 1886)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00653067 · POS - WWI - US, no. 190 (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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