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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Be Patriotic: Sign Your Country's Pledge to Save the Food
Paul Stahr · United States Food Administration, 1917
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour poster Paul Stahr drew in 1917, printed by the W. F. Powers Co. of New York, 73.5 by 53.5 cm, from the Library of Congress scan on Wikimedia Commons.
Why it matters
The Food Administration asked households to sign a pledge to save food, and the sheet puts the request in a single line. Columbia was the female figure of the United States until Lady Liberty displaced her around 1920.
What to notice
Columbia, the country in a woman's form, carrying the sheet's appeal to sign.
A signature, asked for at the kitchen door.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Paul Stahr
- Printer / house
- W. F. Powers Co., New York
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (ds.14742), via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-US-1923, PD-US-expired). Paul Stahr's dates (1883-1953) are not on the Commons record read this session; confirm before they reach a label. The Commons master is a 8914x11975 TIFF; the catalogue hangs its JPEG rendition, which is what is measured and printed.
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