# Rationing and price-control sheets, 1941–1947

68 sheets from the FRAME snapshot, dated 1941 to 1947, on ration books and coupons, ceiling prices, rent control, the black market and wartime inflation. Most were issued by the Office of Price Administration and its partner offices; a few are private. Cards run in date order and show the identifier the archive records.

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  Rationing and price-control sheets, 1941–1947
  68 sheets from the FRAME snapshot, dated 1941 to 1947, on ration books and coupons, ceiling prices, rent control, the black market and wartime inflation. Most were issued by the Office of Price Administration and its partner offices; a few are private. Cards run in date order and show the identifier the archive records.

A sheet is on this grid if its text, or the archive's description of it, is about rationing, ration stamps or points, ceiling or "top legal" prices, rent control, the black market, or the wartime cost of living, and that subject is the sheet's message or one of its listed requests. Sheets that mention a price or a ration only in passing, or mean an Army field ration, are not. Twenty-nine cards name the Office of Price Administration as maker, four the Office of Economic Stabilization, nine the Office of War Information, and three the War Production Board or the War Food Administration. Eleven name no agency, six were printed for campaigns run with merchants, and six are private.

The cards run by year. Within a year they keep the snapshot's order, and the two cartoons with an exact newspaper date come last in their year. Where this site has an essay on the sheet, the card opens it; otherwise it opens the FRAME record.

Under each title is the date the archive gives and the identifier it records. For 59 cards that is a NAID in Record Group 44, World War II Posters, at the National Archives. Five of the six OWI cartoon drawings carry two NAIDs, one for their Record Group 208 series and one for the item, and the Berryman cartoons do the same for their Senate series. One Office of Economic Stabilization poster comes from the University of North Texas and has no National Archives number; its card says "no primary id in the snapshot."

The archive's 1941 dates stand as given. The reasons for what is left out, salvage drives, tire and car-sharing posters, housing appeals and war bonds, are on the hub page, Rationing, price ceilings and the OPA, 1941–1947.

  United StatesA war message: stamp out black markets with your ration stamps1941 · NAID 515475; Record Group 44United StatesGet an official O.P.A. tire inspection on your car today!1941 · NAID 514354; Record Group 44United StatesHomemaker's War Guide1941 · NAID 513833; Record Group 44United StatesHow to Keep Your Food Bill Down1941 · NAID 514546; Record Group 44United StatesHow to Recap With F Grade Capping Stock1941 · NAID 514548; Record Group 44United StatesIf you must squawk, blame them - and watch out for me!1941 · NAID 514590; Record Group 44United StatesMake this pledge: I pay no more than top legal prices, I accept no rationed goods without giving up ration stamps1941 · NAID 514960; Record Group 44United StatesPlay fair. Share the meat1941 · NAID 515181; Record Group 44United StatesShare the meat1941 · NAID 513757; Record Group 44United StatesShare the meat: a pledge of cooperation1941 · NAID 515394; Record Group 44United StatesFor the Square Deal and the Square Meal Share the Meat1941 · NAID 514303; Record Group 44United StatesAll rents for living quarters in Kitsap County are under Federal Control1942 · NAID 513774; Record Group 44United StatesAmericans! Share the Meat as a Wartime Necessity1942 · NAID 513804; Record Group 44United StatesAsk the women and children whom Hitler is starving whether rationing is too great a "sacrifice"1942 · NAID 513836; Record Group 44United StatesFor victory and my personal post war world: I'm following the 7-Key Plan to hold prices down1942 · NAID 514310; Record Group 44United StatesHow mileage is rationed1942 · NAID 514538; Record Group 44United StatesI'm out to lick runaway prices1942 · NAID 514607; Record Group 44United StatesImportant to service station attendants1942 · NAID 514612; Record Group 44United StatesMrs America buys clothes with care1942 · NAID 515034; Record Group 44United StatesMrs America buys food with care1942 · NAID 515035; Record Group 44United StatesNational unity means ultimate victory!1942 · NAID 515046; Record Group 44United StatesRationing safeguards your share1942 · NAID 515277; Record Group 44United StatesShould brave men die so you can drive...?1942 · NAID 515410; Record Group 44United StatesDo with less - so they'll have enough!1943 · NAID 513838; Record Group 44United StatesHelp control inflation by investing in War Bonds!1943 · NAID 514459; Record Group 44United StatesHere's how to head off runaway prices: Follow the 7-key plan to hold prices down1943 · NAID 514478; Record Group 44United StatesHow to shop with War Ration Book Two1943 · NAID 514549; Record Group 44United StatesKill the black market with your ration stamps1943 · NAID 514829; Record Group 44United StatesMeat Today: Learn more cuts1943 · NAID 514998; Record Group 44United StatesMy pledge to you: I charge no more than top legal prices1943 · NAID 515039; Record Group 44United States"It's the least you can do!!"1943 · NAID 535594; NAID 535637United States"Watch your local newspaper!!!"1943 · NAID 535594; NAID 535653United States"I'm conserving wool, this bathing suit's painted on." (undated, c. 1942-1945, OWI)1943 · NAID 535594; NAID 535701United StatesPlant a Victory Garden: Our food is fighting1943 · NAID 513818; Record Group 44United StatesPledge your conscience to your country1943 · NAID 515189; Record Group 44United StatesRationing is sharing with our fighters and neighbors1943 · NAID 515274; Record Group 44United StatesRationing means a fair share for all of us (cartoon version)1943 · NAID 515276; Record Group 44United StatesRationing means a fair share for all of us1943 · NAID 515275; Record Group 44United StatesStamp out black markets with your ration stamps. Pay no more than legal prices1943 · NAID 515474; Record Group 44United StatesTo speed our boys home! Hang this up in your kitchen1943 · NAID 513668; Record Group 44United States"Equal protection for all"1943 · NAID 535647United States"Turn the Spotlight on the Traitor!!"1943 · NAID 535594; NAID 535643United States"Your Shoes Have Gone to War"1943 · NAID 535594; NAID 535611United StatesAre You Playing Square?1944 · NAID 513626; Record Group 44United StatesCost of living 1918, 1944: Home Front Pledge1944 · NAID 514088; Record Group 44United StatesCost of living in two wars: Keep up the good work, keep down living costs1944 · NAID 514087; Record Group 44United StatesHelp me keep prices down1944 · NAID 513811; Record Group 44United StatesIt may not be enough1944 · NAID 514640; Record Group 44United StatesKeep the Home Front Pledge1944 · NAID 513652; Record Group 44United StatesLet's team up to keep food prices down for the sake of America's future1944 · NAID 514887; Record Group 44United StatesMy tank's in the war, too, and I'm running it fair and square to protect your share1944 · NAID 515041; Record Group 44United StatesNew ceiling price lists are here!1944 · NAID 515063; Record Group 44United States"Of course I can!"1944 · NAID 515098; Record Group 44United StatesOur ceiling price list: we post 'em, you check 'em1944 · NAID 515142; Record Group 44United StatesOur pledge to keep prices down1944 · NAID 515153; Record Group 44United StatesPledged to keep prices down1944 · NAID 515190; Record Group 44United StatesShare and play square: pay ration points in full when buying rationed foods; pay no more than ceiling prices1944 · NAID 515392; Record Group 44United StatesShare and play square: keep the home front pledge1944 · NAID 515393; Record Group 44United StatesWe Have Gas... If You Have Legally Issued Coupons, Properly Endorsed1944 · NAID 513627; Record Group 44United StatesWe'll Take Care of the Rising Sun, You Take Care of Rising Prices1944 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesDon't feed black market greed1946 · NAID 514140; Record Group 44United StatesHelp your OPA fight inflation1946 · NAID 514468; Record Group 44United StatesOPA ceiling prices: Don't be overcharged1946 · NAID 515131; Record Group 44United StatesReport over ceiling prices to the OPA1946 · NAID 515302; Record Group 44United StatesSucker!1946 · NAID 515506; Record Group 44United StatesSucker! If you pay over ceiling prices1946 · NAID 515507; Record Group 44United StatesSoda Springs Discusses "the State of the Nation"February 10, 1946 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743137United StatesYou mean I can't take 'em on one at a time?November 19, 1947 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743141

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