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Come into the garden dad!, World War I poster from Canada (c. 1918), Archives of Ontario poster collection (I0016363)Victory Gardens became popular in Canada in 1917. Under the Ministry of Agriculture's campaign, "A Vegetable Garden for Every Home", residents of cities, towns and villages utilized backyard spaces to plant vegetables for personal use and war eff
Poster with a patriotic theme to save food (1917), issued when domestic food restrictions were applied to support the war effort. The United States Food Administration (1917–1920) was an independent federal agency that controlled the production, distribution, and conservation of food in the U.S. during the nation's participation in World War I.
Kaminski, Joseph Jon. "World War I and Propaganda Poster Art: Comparing the United States and German Cases." Epiphany Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies 2 (2014): 64-81. online; Knightley, Phillip (2002), The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo, Johns Hopkins UP, ISBN 978-0-8018-6951-8
Even prior to a declaration of war by the United States, shortages of coal were experienced in the winter of 1916-17. To address concerns about a steady supply of fuel to support military and industrial operations and for use by consumers, in 1917 the Federal Fuel Administration was established and US President Woodrow Wilson appointed Harry A. Garfield to lead the agency.
Wilson established the first modern propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information (CPI), headed by George Creel. [6] [7] Creel set out to systematically reach every person in the United States multiple times with patriotic information about how the individual could contribute to the war effort.
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Weapons for Liberty – U.S.A. Bonds, Liberty bond poster by J. C. Leyendecker (1918). During World War I, the United States saw a systematic mobilization of the country's entire population and economy to produce the soldiers, food supplies, ammunitions and money necessary to win the war.
The U.S. Food Administration managed the wartime supply and distribution of food, and promoted a voluntary austerity program that supported the war effort. Although the United States did not have food rationing in World War I, it relied heavily on propaganda campaigns to persuade people to