The poster was created by the United States Food Administration between 1917 and 1919, during the 1st World War and signed L.C.s Clinker and M.J. Owyer.
LThe urgency of the appeal “Do not waste food while others starve!” is made by the drama of the image: a woman in the foreground, with thin and gaunt face, that with one arm holding a newborn baby in tears and with the other surrounds the shoulders of a undernourished child who holds out his hand as if to ask for something to eat. Another child, whose profile is only hinted at, clings to the woman on the other side.
Behind them, you can see a pleading crowd with arms raised upward, while in the background stand the ruins of bombed buildings.