Exhibit Title: Beans are Bullets and Of Course I can! Food Posters from the Collection of the National Agriculture Library. SECTIONS
Overview




1.
Introduction


 2.
WWI: Citizens
as Rational and Regional 3.
WWI: Posters for
the Farm Front

4.
WWI: Illustration & Explanation,
Sobering & Dutiful 5.
Posters & Propaganda Between the Wars 6.
1930-40s-WWII: Images & Emotions, Citizens as Consumers 7.
Elevating Food, Women and Responsibility During Wartime

Section 2 Image Gallery

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Image 5

Eat More Corn

This poster describes corn as a palatable and nutritious substitute for wheat.

If “palatable” and “nutritious” were not inspiration enough, this poster also made an appeal to patriotic sentiments with the text, “Corn Saved the Pilgrims and Fed Our Pioneers, Corn Will Help Us Feed the World.”

USDA, 1917.

Source: Special Collections, National Agricultural Library