Visual Materials

Hunger breeds madness

Description: Prints, advertising; Image of a man, woman, and child on a hilltop overlooking building rooftops with a cathedral visible in the distance; the man stands facing the city and holding a burning torch while the mother sits slumped over the child laying across her lap with an empty food bowl at her side; the poster promotes the food conservation campaign in the United States during World War I.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1918
Call number: priWWI_A_48
Provenance: Gift of Charles L. Heartwell, 1938.; Gift of Elizabeth Norris, June 2014.
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Scribner's August fiction number

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for the Scribner's magazine August 1899 issue; a man, woman, and child stand on a grassy knoll overlooking the ocean gazing at a rainbow over the water; boats and seagulls visible in background.

priJLC_ART_004656

You buy a liberty bond lest I perish

Visual Materials

Prints, advertising; Image of a stern Lady Liberty figure in robes with crown and torch pointing at the viewer; two circular frames at lower left and right portray the Statue of Liberty with the slogan, "Get behind the government Liberty Loan of 1917"; the poster promotes the sale of United States Liberty Bonds during World War I.

priWWI_A_76

Il cibo vincerà la guerra! Venite qui a cercare la libertà dovete ora aiutare a conservarla il pane è necessario agli alleati non sprecate nulla

Visual Materials

Prints, advertising; Image of immigrants arriving at a dock in the New York Harbor with a rainbow, a ship, the Manhattan skyline, and Statue of Liberty in the distance; a young man wearing a red cap guides an older woman holding a basket of food in the foreground; the poster's text, directed to Italian immigrants, promotes the conservation of food as part of the war effort in the United States during World War I.

priWWI_A_52

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A visit from St. Nicholas

Rare Books

Relates in verse the activities of the bearded old man who spends one night a year landing on rooftops and sliding down chimneys.

623221

Preserve : co-operation

Visual Materials

Prints, advertising; Image of three individuals, a man wearing a hat labeled "Farmer," a man wearing an apron and a hat labeled "Dealer," and a woman wearing a uniform and a hat labeled "House Wife's League," standing in a line behind a table of food including a large basket of fruits and vegetables and canning jars, with Uncle Sam in the background; the poster promotes the canning and preserving campaign sponsored by the National Commercial Gas Association from June to November 1917 in the United States during World War I.

priWWI_L_60

The night after the battle

Visual Materials

Image of a woman in a hooded cape with a scarf covering her hair attending to wounded soldiers on a battlefield at night under a crescent moonlit sky during the American Civil War; one soldier holds a wounded man for the woman's examination as another holds a torch aloft for illumination; wounded and dead men and horses litter the field.

priJLC_MIL_000941

Hunger breeds madness

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