Donald Duck trying to hold up a wall in order to assist Horace Horsecollar who is firing nails into it with a nail gun; representing the need for manual workers to eat a good breakfast. Colour lithograph by Walt Disney, 1943.

[California] : Food and Nutrition Committee, California War Council, [1943]

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 48 x 31.5 cm

You can’t breakfast like a bird and work like a horse! This is a good breakfast. Grapefruit, orange juice, melon or berries. Coffee. Oatmeal or other cereal with milk. Eggs now and then. 2 slices whole wheat or enriched bread and butter. Designed by Walt Disney for the Food and Nutrition Committee, California War Council. Copyright 1943 Walt Disney Productions.

The California War Council was created in 1943 under the U.S. War Powers Act of 1943 to organize civil defense in California in the absence of the usual emergency services on war service in the Pacific. It was later succeded by the Disaster Service Worker Volunteer Program (DSWVP), under the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Disaster Service Worker Volunteer Program (DSWVP) guidance, 2001, pp. 5-6). This poster therefore appears to be aimed at a non-military audience

Wellcome Collection 659691i