Farmers! Housewives! Children! - The President of the United States Appeals to You Personally - United States Department of Agriculture / Artist Unknown
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- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.123
- Title
- Farmers! Housewives! Children! - The President of the United States Appeals to You Personally - United States Department of Agriculture
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917-1919
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Maurice F. Lyons
- Style/Group/Movement
- poster
- Dimensions
- 76.2 cm x 53.8 cm (30 in. x 21 3/16 in.)
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- Text Excerpt: Farmers! Housewives! Children! - The President of the United States Appeals to You Personally - These extracts from the address of President Wilson should be read carefully by every one who produces or can produce food and by all who consume food: - MY FELLOW COUTRYMEN: The entrance of our own beloved country into the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates so many problems of natural life and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that I hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them. … (headers) Abundant Food Supplies Essential … Make Sure of Large Harvests … To Young Men and Boys … To the Farmers of the South … The Government to Cooperate … To the Middlemen .. To Every Household - The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together! - Woodrow Wilson (signed) [Text Excerpted from the "Message to the American People" on April 15, 1917]
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- farming
- how we live
- mammals
- materials
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- objects
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by location or context
- photographs
- posters
- text-based art
- the natural world
- transportation
- vehicles
- war
- yards
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 919 x 1315
- File Size
- 224 KB
- Record
- 1954/2.35.123
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"Farmers! Housewives! Children! - The President of the United States Appeals to You Personally - United States Department of Agriculture; Artist Unknown." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-2.35.123/1954_2.35.123.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.
