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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Plant a Victory Garden: Our Food Is Fighting
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of War Information, OWI Poster No. 34, 1943
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 as OWI Poster No. 34 and printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1943, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-368.
Why it matters
Victory gardens were planted at homes and in public parks to stretch rations and, the government hoped, to lift morale on the home front.
What to notice
The imprint, OWI Poster No. 34, U.S. Government Printing Office 1943, and a title that gives the food a soldier's verb.
A vegetable row, called up.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Printer / house
- U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, OWI Poster No. 34, 1943
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513818, local id 44-PA-368), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513818 · 44-PA-368
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 513818, 44-PA-368): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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