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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Sow the Seeds of Victory! Plant & Raise Your Own Vegetables
James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) · National War Garden Commission, Washington, D.C., 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 James Montgomery Flagg drew for the National War Garden Commission in 1918, 56 by 36 cm.
Why it matters
The Commission, led by its president Charles Lathrop Pack, sent free books on gardening, canning and drying to anyone who wrote to Washington. Flagg is best remembered for the Uncle Sam he drew for Army recruiting in 1917.
What to notice
Liberty sowing seed, with Pack's line set as the caption: Every garden a munition plant.
Seed for a garden, counted as munitions.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- National War Garden Commission, Washington, D.C., 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002712333 · POS - US .F63, no. 13 (B 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). James Montgomery Flagg died in 1960; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2031. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; legal sign-off owed before any EU or UK order (the Dudovich precedent).
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