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Save Food and Defeat Frightfulness

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Herbert Andrew Paus, artist.

Date created
1917
License
This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
Source
Original image housed by Library of Congress

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  • The Great Depression and World War II: Primary sources and readings explore the history of North Carolina and the United States during the Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945). (Page 1.3)

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World War I propaganda poster. Caption reads “‘America, the hope of all who suffer, the dread of all who wrong,’ Whittier. Save food and defeat frightfulness.” Poster shows a Red Cross nurse with wounded and needy people, including a soldier and a mother holding a child, all gesturing toward the quote from Whittier.