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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
Registered War Garden Under Protection of State Council of Defense
J. N. Dingo · War Garden Committee, State Council of Defense, 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 J. N. Dingo's cartoon from the Chicago Evening Post, printed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. of Chicago in 1918 for the War Garden Committee, 70 by 55 cm.
Why it matters
The sheet marked a garden as registered war work, and its text argues the case: all the ammunition does not come from the powder factories, and food will win the war. The Food Administration, set up by executive order on 10 August 1917, ran the country's food while it was at war.
What to notice
A farmer waving a War Gardens banner while his cannon, made from a bushel basket, fires produce and blows a German figure sky high.
A vegetable patch, mounted like a gun battery.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- J. N. Dingo
- Printer / house
- R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Garden Committee, State Council of Defense, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00653319 · POS - WWI - US, no. 168 (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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