"Hunger" WWI Home Front Poster by Henry Raleigh (1917)

Henry Raleigh poster encouraged Americans to eat less so that the U.S. may send more food aid to Belgium, and featuring Henry Raleigh art of a starving woman and her children.

Food shortages were widespread in Europe during the war. Even before the United States entered the war, American relief organizations were shipping food overseas. On the home front, it was hoped that Americans would adjust their eating habits in such a way as to conserve food that could then be sent abroad. Americans were told to go meatless and wheatless and to eat more corn and fish. Americans were also encouraged to plant victory gardens and can fruits and vegetables.