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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Follow the Pied Piper: Join the United States School Garden Army
Maginel Wright Barney (1877-1966) · United States School Garden Army, 1919
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 offset print Maginel Wright Barney made for the United States School Garden Army, printed by the Graphic Company of Washington, D.C., about 1919, 54.5 by 40 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The School Garden Army enlisted schoolchildren as gardeners, and Barney, a children's book illustrator and the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, cast Uncle Sam as the piper of the old tale. The Library of Congress showed the sheet in American Treasures in 2003.
What to notice
Uncle Sam playing a fife at the head of a line of children who carry garden tools and a seed bag.
The Pied Piper, leading the children somewhere useful.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Maginel Wright Barney (1877-1966)
- Printer / house
- The Graphic Company, Washington, D.C.
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States School Garden Army, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 95506493 · POS - US .B383, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]
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 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923). Maginel Wright Barney died in 1966; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2037. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; legal sign-off owed before any EU or UK order (the Dudovich precedent).
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