The Snapshots in Time Collection
WWI-Era Scrapbook Page with Newspaper Clipping, "To Grocers: Several Thousand Pounds Taken Back as Result of Fear Homes Would Be Raided by Inspectors," Los Angeles, 1918
A World War I-era scrapbook page featuring a 1918 newspaper clipping describing Los Angeles households voluntarily returning hoarded sugar to grocers for fear of inspection by the U.S. Food Administration, then led by Herbert Hoover. The clipping illustrates the reach of federal wartime rationing enforcement into everyday civilian life on the American home front. The lower portion of the page shows significant paper loss where a mounted item, likely a photograph, has been lost over time. Project: 218690