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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
Victory! Congress Passes Daylight Saving Bill
United Cigar Stores Company, 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 by an unidentified artist, sponsored by the United Cigar Stores Company in 1918, sheet 95 by 53 cm, signed with a monogram the Library of Congress could not identify.
Why it matters
Congress passed the daylight saving bill in 1918, and the caption tells the reader what to do with the extra hour: get your hoe ready! The Library of Congress showed the sheet in Echoes of the Great War in 2017.
What to notice
Uncle Sam turning a clock to daylight saving time while a figure with a clock for a head throws his hat in the air, its face reading One hour of extra daylight.
An hour of light, handed to the gardeners.
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 Cigar Stores Company, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722591 · POS - US .U55, no. 4 (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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