Food Conservation

Creator(s): U.S. Food Administration. Education Division. 1917-1920 (Most Recent)
Series: Motion Picture Films, ca. 1917 - ca. 1918
Record Group 4: Records of the U.S. Food Administration, 1917 - 1920
Scope & Content: Parts 1-3 are cartoons dramatizing the need to conserve food. Part 4, Senate proponents of the Food Control Bill of 1917, George Earle Chamberlain and Willard Saulsbury, pose in a room at the U.S. Capitol. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover leaves the White House. Part 5, speaker of the House Champ Clark signs the bill and hands the pen to Rep. Asbury Francis Lever (S.C.).
Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone], Email: [e-mail]
National Archives Identifier: 1220
Local Identifier: 4.2
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