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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
Uncle Sam Says: Garden to Cut Food Costs
United States Department of Agriculture, 1917
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 by an unnamed artist, made for the United States Department of Agriculture in 1917, 39 by 51 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall.
Why it matters
The sheet offered a free bulletin on gardening from the Department in Washington, D.C., and closed on a pun: it's food for thought.
What to notice
A man and a woman tending a vegetable garden, with Uncle Sam and an arrangement of vegetables in the foreground.
A vegetable bed, enlisted against prices.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Department of Agriculture, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00653180 · POS - WWI - US, no. 167 (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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