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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
She Is Doing Her Part to Help Win the War
Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952) · United States Food Administration, wheat conservation, 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 Howard Chandler Christy drew in 1918 for the campaign to save wheat, 133 by 101 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
Civilians were asked to cook with other grains so that wheat could go to the war. Christy's Christy Girl followed Gibson's, and his recruiting and Liberty Loan sheets of the Great War are the work he is best known for.
What to notice
A young woman at the stove with corn meal, oats and barley, the substitutes the campaign named: the Christy Girl, moved into the kitchen.
Patriotism measured in a cup of corn meal.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War · Women at War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, wheat conservation, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2003652812 · POS - US .C58, no. 13 (E 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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