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256. Anon: Accidents and Waste Must Go…the Sooner the Better!
Accidents and waste are depicted as two red devils hot footing it away from a white knight with a lance aimed straight at them. Interesting use of sinister dark shadows.
Scarce. New to us. 27x17 ML $450.
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With an expression that takes dead pan to a new high, a housewife, incongruously a Bette Davis lookalike, takes the pledge to stick to rationing rules and not to pay more than official government ceiling prices. Poster an attempt to curtail the black market in rationed food..
Bird & Rubinstein 92. 28x20 NML $135; 40x28 NML $165.
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Poster with a punning title shows Justice meted out to black marketeer. The culprit is seen squashed by a ration stamp. Shortages led to black markets springing up in all combatant countries. In France, for instance, 60% of the agricultural and industrial production for 1944 disappeared into the black market.
Stanley 108 Uncommon. 28x22 NML $285.
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They can every time they can. Patriotic pair avoids wartime shortages by canning fruits and vegetables while having fun at the same time. By 1943, over half U.S. canned goods were being shipped overseas. The remaining food was rationed. Bird & Rubinstein 39, Gregory 82. 22x14 NML $265.
Identifying armbands of all the branches of the Civilian Defense Corps are grouped together in poster that demonstrates the graphic genius of Charles Coiner, a very influential art director of ‘the less is more’ school of modern design. His crisp streamlined designs were widely imitated.
40x28 ANML $385.
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Self sufficient family grows its own veggies reducing dependence on commercial growers. Conservation was a success in part because of the Victory Garden program. Twenty million Americans planted gardens that produced 40% of all food consumed at home. Whimsical style a la Ben Shahn.
Nelson 36. 28x22 NML $285.
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Hearty fishermen draw nourishment form the sea. Lowering sky compresses this image and highlights another trawler headed into port with its precious cargo. The idea of substituting fish for meat in domestic consumption was a legacy of WWI food conservation.
28x20 ANML $385.
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Barrel overflowing with the catch of the day swings into view. Eating fish was considered a hardship in the meat and potatoes world of the 1940s instead of the expensive gourmet treat it has since become. Substituting meat for more perishable fish, was another legacy of WW I.
28x20 ANML $385.
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They can every time they can. Patriotic pair avoids wartime shortages by canning fruits and vegetables while having fun at the same time. By 1943, over half U.S. canned goods were being shipped overseas. The remaining food was rationed.
Bird & Rubinstein 39, Gregory 82. 22x14 NML $265.