Helping Hoover in our U.S. school garden – Historic Reproduction
![Helping Hoover in our U.S. school garden, N[ew] Y[ork] : American Lithographic Co., 1919. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/06/06a47797fdf0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Helping Hoover in our U.S. school garden. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Helping Hoover in our U.S. school garden
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This 1919 chromolithograph pictures schoolchildren working a garden plot and hauling produce in wheelbarrows, with the slogan "Helping Hoover" tying their labor to the national food effort. Herbert Hoover directed the U.S. Food Administration during the First World War, which urged Americans to grow, save, and conserve food so that more could be shipped to Allied countries and troops overseas. The poster was issued under the U.S. School Garden Army, which recruited young people to plant vegetable gardens at home and at school. Its message reflects how wartime food conservation reached into classrooms and backyards, and the cheerful, orderly scene shows the campaign's effort to make civic duty look like everyday work.
| Created / published | N[ew] Y[ork] : American Lithographic Co., 1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 77 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | Department of Interior |
| Notes | Issued by the U.S. School Garden Army |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Children--1910-1920. Gardening--United States--1910-1920. Vegetables--1910-1920. Wheelbarrows--1910-1920. School gardens--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,576 × 2,400 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220036 |
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