The little girl here in the Phrygian cap, holding a portfolio, points to the name of an exhibition of posters drawn by Parisian schoolgirls in the last year of World War I to encourage the French population to conserve resources. In early 1918, the Comité National de Prévoyance et d’Économies (National Committee for Foresight and Thrift) announced a student competition, open to girls between the ages of 13 and 16, on the theme of voluntary rationing. Only 16 posters from the thousands of submissions were finally printed—they were received to great acclaim and were distributed throughout France and to the country’s allies abroad.