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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
War Gardens Over the Top: The Seeds of Victory Insure the Fruits of Peace
Maginel Wright Barney (1877-1966) · National War Garden Commission, Washington, D.C., 1919
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 print Maginel Wright Barney made for the National War Garden Commission, copyright 1919, 74 by 57 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The Commission, under its president Charles Lathrop Pack and secretary Percival S. Ridsdale, urged Americans to raise their own food and free the country's stores for the military. Barney, a children's book illustrator, was the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Library of Congress showed the sheet in American Treasures in 2003.
What to notice
A boy with a hoe chasing fleeing vegetables, the trench phrase of the title turned loose in a garden.
Over the top, with a hoe.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Maginel Wright Barney (1877-1966)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- National War Garden Commission, Washington, D.C., 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 95506484 · POS - US .B383, no. 3 (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-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923). Maginel Wright Barney died in 1966; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2037. 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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