Will you have a part in victory? / James Montgomery Flagg. – Vintage Print
(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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This rare vintage poster captures Will you have a part in victory? / James Montgomery Flagg. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Will you have a part in victory? / James Montgomery Flagg.
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The poster's caption, "Every garden a munition plant," reframes a backyard vegetable patch as a contribution to the war effort. Its artist, James Montgomery Flagg, was best known for his "I Want You" recruiting poster, and this lithograph was produced for the National War Garden Commission, which the forester Charles Lathrop Pack helped organize in 1917. During the First World War the Commission urged Americans to plant home and community gardens, so that more commercially grown food could be shipped to troops and Allied countries. The poster shows how the government and its partners tried to make food conservation feel like a patriotic duty for ordinary households.
| Created / published | c1918. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 84 x 56 cm. |
| Notes | Caption: Every garden a munition plant." Charles Lathrop Pack |
| Subjects | National War Garden Commission--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Food supply--1910-1920. Victory gardens--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,796 × 4,110 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223490 |
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