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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
War Rages in France: We Must Feed Them
Harry Everett Townsend · United States Food Administration, sheet No. 19, 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 Harry Everett Townsend drew for the United States Food Administration in 1917, 75 by 50 cm, sheet No. 19.
Why it matters
The text explains that the French cannot fight and raise food at the same time, and that denying ourselves only a little means life to them. Townsend was a war artist for the United States Army in the First World War.
What to notice
Refugees in a ruined street.
A ruined street, fed from an American table.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Harry Everett Townsend
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, sheet No. 19, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722571 · POS - US .T69, no. 1 (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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