The
Victory Home:
Food--Black Market
Although
food was rationed, many things were available on the black market. This
was especially true for meats, which many Americans were unwilling to
give
up. Of course, the black market applied to other rationed or scarce
materials, as well.
Poster image is
courtesy
of the Northwestern University Library
poster database .
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Coupons and
Counterfeits: World War II and the U. S. Black Market
(research paper; there are some transcription errors)
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Photos
These photos are in the
American Memory collection,
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs
from
the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the small image to see
a larger one.
To see images from the
propaganda film "Black Marketing", search this collection, using
keywords, black marketing .
Black market in meats. Maybe she's getting a bargain in points, but the
price will slice heavily into her budget.
Slaughtering for the
"black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ration point bargain(?)
piece of meat.
Photo
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If the ration points are cut, so must the prices be. Slashed points
without slashed prices are one of the surest clues to black-market
meats.
Calves slaughtered for the black market in meat, under unsanitary
conditions.
This filthy frame structure was once a "black market" for meats. Note
the lime scattered on the floor, a black marketeer's gesture at
cleanliness.
Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Wasted parts of illegally
slaughtered animal left lying on the floor of a makeshift abattoir.
Wasted in the hasty, slovenly black marketer's makeshift abattoir are
parts that might make valuable surgical and medicinal supplies for U.S.
soldiers: sutures for sewing up incisions, adrenalin and insulin, as
well
as gelatin for military photographic film.
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Posters
These posters are in
the
Northwestern
University Library collection. Click on the small image to
see a larger one.
Make this Pledge
Homefront Pledge
Stamp out black markets
Don't feed black market greed
These posters are in
the
National
Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.
Kill the
black market with ration stamps. Remember it takes two to make a black
market.
Pledge
Your Conscience to Your Country. "I shall buy no more meat than my
ration stamps entitle me to... because the rest of the meat is needed
for the war." Help Speed Victory.
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Pamphlets
The pamphlet I had in
this section is no longer available, but I'm looking for replacements.
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