Wood, Milton Rusling (sold)
Milton Rusling Wood (April 19, 1875 - September 30, 1940) was a New York based lithographer active in the first half of the 20th century. Wood was born in Pennsylvania and attended Princeton University. He headed the New York lithography firm of his own name from about 1900 through the 1920s. Rusling Wood, as he was known, is best known for printing numerous government-sponsored propaganda posters for World War I (1914 - 1818).
Jewish-American immigrant patriotism in WWI.
[Food will win the war!] / שפייז וועט געווינען דיא קריעג!
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A significant 1917 World War I propaganda poster in Yiddish illustrated by Charles Edward Chambers and published by the United States Food Administration. The poster appeals to Jewish immigrants to save food, particularly wheat, for the Allied war effort by suggesting that the European war was a threat to their hard-won freedom. (more details)