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Description: | Concept: civilian effort, agriculture / food, military personnel, uniform, allegory, eating / drinking, natural phenomena / time / weather, seascape, shipping, transport Description: whole: the image occupies the left half and lower right, with the title separate and positioned top edge right, in black. The text is separate and positioned upper right, also in black. Further text is integrated and positioned lower left and across the bottom edge, also in black. All set against a white background. image: an American soldier stands on a narrow wooden pier next to a large sack of corn. A French merchant sailor stands at the end of the pier where his small row boat is tied up. He holds out his arms as he tries to decide whether to take the corn or the soldier on his boat. In the background, the sun rises behind the Statue of Liberty. text: Aux Travailleurs de la Défense Nationale Restreignez-vous pour hter la victoire. Ne jetez pas un gramme de pain. Economisez 100 grammes de nourriture par jour. Cela suffirait pour augmenter d'une Division par mois l'arrivée des renforts américains. En économisant sur votre nourriture vous économiserez des mois de tranchées à nos poilus. LOUCHEUR. BLÉ U.S.A poulbot 1918 OU L'UN, OU L'AUTRE Français, choisissez! L'EMANCIPATRICE, 3, rue de Pondichéry, Paris. [To those working for national defence. Restrain your demands to speed up victory. Don't throw a gram of bread away. Cut down on your food intake by 100 grams a day. That would be enough to increase the arrival of American reinforcements by a division a month. By saving on your food you will save our soldiers months in the trenches. Loucheur. Wheat. U.S.A. Either one, or the other. People of France, choose! 'L'Emancipatrice' [address].] Object: sack, boat, oar, statue, rifle, pier | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Poulbot, Francisque Printer: L'Emancipatrice (Imprimerie Coopérative), Paris | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=3243... | Go to resource |
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