HARVEY T. DUNN 'VICTORY IS A QUESTION OF STAMINA' WWI ANTIQUE 29x21" COLOR LITHO

Description

HARVEY T. DUNN
(AME
RI
CAN,
1884-1952)
DATED 1917
'VICTORY IS A QUESTION OF STAMINA,'
[Send The Wheat-Meat-Fats-Sugar,
The Fuel for Fighters]
ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, WWI COLOR
LITHOGRAPH, 29" HEIGHT
by
21" WIDTH,
LARGE FOLIO ADVERTISING EPHEMERA
BROADSIDE/POSTER, US FOOD
ADMINISTRATION
By:
Lathem Litho. & Ptg. Co., Brooklyn, NY
(Dated 1917)
Early 20th century
Ame
ri
can
antique original, authentic large folio,
WWI,
figurative color lithographed broadsides/wall posters
DIMENSIONS:
29" Height x 21" Width
DESCRIPTION/
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
In
1917,
the
Unit
ed St
ates
federal government,
worried about wartime food shortages, passed the
Food and Fuel Control Act,
giving then
US President Woodrow Wilson,
the power to regulate the distribution, export, import, purchase and storage of food.
President Wilson
used this new power and legislated mandate, to create the
US Food Administration
under the direction of
Herbert Hoover.
This
WWI food propaganda large folio broadside or color lithographed wall poster,
shows two
Ame
ri
can
doughboys on attack, with rifles and fixed bayonets, lurching ahead selflessly and heroically into the often deadly zone between the dug-out earthen trenches of the opposing armies, known as 'no man's land.' Under the graphic iconography is printed the typography that says the soldiers need fuel, namely
'wheat, meat, fats and sugar.'
First painted and created by the
Ame
ri
can
artist
Harvey T. Dunn
(U
S
A,
1884-1952.)
CONDITION:
Very Good to Excellent overall antique condition.