Buy and Eat Potatoes Now! Original WWI Poster 1918

Description

Buy and Eat Potatoes Now! Original Poster 1918
Full information about this historic poster can be found here: https://www.nhhistory.org/Object?id=f8bd9a95-80f0-4089-8908-37ba69944883
Title:
Buy and Eat Potatoes Now!, 1918
Creator:
Evans Printing Company
Creator Role:
Printer
Accession / Call Number:
S 1995.516.22
Object ID:
S 1995.516.22
Date:
1918
Type of Material:
textual record
Physical Description:
1 broadside ; 29 x 21 inches
Language:
English
Scope and Content:
Broadside from the New Hampshire Food Administration and printed by Evans Printing Company in Concord, NH, dated 1918. The broadside encourages individuals to attend New Hampshire's "potato drive" from April 15 to May 15 to help the farmers save wheat by buying and eating potatoes. Small poster thumbnails can be seen in the four corners of this poster, which are of posters created by the Division of Pictorial Publicity in Washington, DC, to increase public support for food conservation efforts.
This Poster has various tears and some missing pieces towards the edges. Please view the pictures.