Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management Americans! Share the Meat
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09653.08 Author/Creator: Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Poster Date: 1942 Pagination: 71 x 53.8 cm. Order a Copy
One poster entitled "Americans! Share the Meat," dated 1942. Pertains to meat rations during World War II. Poster contains list of civilians needing to limit their meat consumption to 2 1/2 pounds. Commissioned by the Food Requirement Committee through the War Department. Signed by Claude R. Wickard, Chariman. Item number is OWI Poster No. 10, O-489556.
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