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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Help! The Woman's Land Army of America, New Jersey Division
Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) · Woman's Land Army of America, New Jersey Division, State House, Trenton, 1918
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 lithograph of a Charles Dana Gibson drawing first printed in Life on 23 May 1918, issued as a poster for the New Jersey Division of the Woman's Land Army of America, 103 by 69 cm.
Why it matters
The Woman's Land Army put women on the farms the men had left for France, and the caption under the drawing gives its term: until the boys come back. Gibson had created the Gibson Girl, and in 1918 he became editor of Life, which held the copyright on this sheet.
What to notice
Uncle Sam takes the hand of a young woman who holds a hoe, one worker greeting another. Applicants were to write to the State House in Trenton.
A handshake that lasts until the boys come back.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War · Women at War · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Woman's Land Army of America, New Jersey Division, State House, Trenton, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002712339 · POS - US .G52, no. 17 (C 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-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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