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(AMERICANA). “Shpeyz Vet Gevenen die Krieg!” [“Food Will Win the War!”]. LITHOGRAPHED POSTER with Yiddish text by CHARLES EDWARD CHAMBERS (1883-1941). 19 x 30 inches (48 x 76 cm). Framed. New York, (1917). Issued by the United States Food Administration, this poster engages in moral exhortation, intimating to newly-naturalized citizens that the way to repay America for its welcome-mat, is by supporting the Allies in the war effort: “You Came Here to Find Freedom, Now You Must Help Defend it. We Must Supply the Allies With Wheat. Waste Nothing.” See Judah L. Magnes Museum Catalogue, Witnesses to History: The Jewish Poster (1989) p. 16.