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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
Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat
Edward Penfield (1866-1925) · United States Food Administration, 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 Edward Penfield drew for the wheat-saving campaign of 1918, 29 by 48 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall.
Why it matters
The Food Administration, set up by executive order on 10 August 1917, ran the country's food while it was at war. The title makes its argument in eight words: wheat left uneaten here was bread for France.
What to notice
Three Frenchwomen in harness pull a cultivator across the field, doing the work of the horse.
Three women in harness, asking for bread.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Edward Penfield (1866-1925)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Food Administration, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719421 · POS - US .P452, no. 110 a (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).
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