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266 Southwestern Historical Quarterly October
United States Food Administration, 1917-1919, published in 1941. His
straightforward administrative report touches upon broad topics, includ-
ing agency authorization, conservation, organization, food industries,
and transportation. Edith Guerrier, who led the agency's Education Di-
vision activities in libraries and exhibits, wrote the reminiscence We
Pledged Allegiance, a first-person narrative that captured the spirit of gov-
ernment service in Washington during World War I.8
Relatively little research was conducted in these papers after the close
of the agency, although some states did publish descriptions of their re-
spective work.9 Most State Food Administrators followed instructions to
crate their records and send them to Washington. Not until the 193os,
when the National Archives Building was completed, were the haphaz-
ardly stored records of the Food Administration accessioned. The new
facility for the papers inspired some historians and researchers to cele-
brate the first-time availability of the collection and increased awareness
of the activities of the Food Administration in several states.10 More re-
cently, scholars have used the Food Administration papers to examine
the nature of propaganda, to scrutinize the agency's nutrition programs,
and to complete the picture of activities on one state's home front dur-
ing World War I.11
A History of the Food Administration Papers
Research and publications correspond to different stages in the dispo-
sition of the Food Administration papers. For almost a decade after the
6 Two of the best sources that list Food Admmistration pubhcations are Frank Macy Surface
and Raymond L. Bland, American Food in the World War and Reconstructzon Period (Palo Alto, Cahf.:
Stanford University Press, 1931); and Mullendore's History of the United States Food Administratzon.
Mullendore includes an mtroduction by Herbert Hoover and a foreword and bibliography by
Ralph Haswell Lutz. Publications related to the Food Administration dating from the late 1910os
and early 19205 tended to be those published by the agency itself and often focused on one as-
pect of the agency's activities, such as food distribution and price controls in the sugar industry.
One notable exception is Surface and Bland, American Food, which discusses the range of the
agency's activities.
0 For examples of state publications, see The U.S. Food Administration, Food Administratzon in
the Granite State during the World War, foreword by Huntley N. Spauldmg, Federal Food Adminims-
trator for New Hampshire (n.p., [1919]); George Nox McCain, War Rations for Pennsylvanians
(Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1920); and Ivan J. Pollock, Food Adminzstration in Iowa
(Iowa City: Iowa State Historical Society, 1923).
10 William D. McCain, "The Papers of the Food Administration for Missouri, 1917-1919," Ms-
souri Hstoncal Review, 32 (Oct., 1937), 56-61; Edmond S. MeanyJr., "Food Administration Papers
for Washington, Oregon, and Idaho Deposited in the National Archives," Pacific Northwest Quarter-
ly, 28 (Oct., 1937), 373-382; Carl L. Locke, "The Food Administration Papers for the State of Vir-
ginia in the National Archives," Vzrgznia Magazine of Hstory and Biography, 50 (July, 1942),
220-226, and Harry L. ColesJr., "The Federal Food Administration of Tennessee and Its Records
in the National Archives, 1917-1919," Tennessee Hstoncal Quarterly, 4 (Mar., 1945), 23-57. See al-
so Maxcy Robson Dickson, "The War Comes to All: The Story of the United States Food Admims-
tration as a Propaganda Agency" (Ph.D. diss , George Washington University, 1942).
" For example, see L. Margaret Barnett, "The Impact of 'Fletcherism' on the Food Pohcies of
Herbert Hoover during World War I," Bulletin of the Hstory of Mediczne, 66 (1992), 234-259;
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