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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
The Woman's Land Army of America: Training School, University of Virginia
Herbert Paus (1880-1946) · Woman's Land Army of America, U.S. Employment Service, Richmond, Virginia, 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 poster Herbert Paus made for the Woman's Land Army of America in 1918, advertising its training school at the University of Virginia, 75.5 by 50.9 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
Applicants went to the U.S. Employment Service in Richmond, and the school trained women for the farm work of the war years. Paus later drew every Popular Science cover from mid-1927 to early 1931 and entered the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2005.
What to notice
Two women carry a basket of vegetables in front of a uniformed woman on horseback who holds the American flag.
The farm, recruited like a cavalry troop.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Herbert Paus (1880-1946)
- Campaign
- Women at War · Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Woman's Land Army of America, U.S. Employment Service, Richmond, Virginia, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 97520484 · POS - US .P38, no. 2
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).
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