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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Of Course I Can
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · War Food Administration, 1941–1945
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 poster issued by the War Food Administration, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-1435, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
Victory gardens were planted at homes and in public parks to stretch rations, and the War Food Administration asked households to can what they grew.
What to notice
The double sense of can, able and preserving at once, and the imprint naming the War Food Administration.
Confidence, sealed in a jar.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Food Administration, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 515098, local id 44-PA-1435), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 515098 · 44-PA-1435
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 515098, 44-PA-1435): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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