War Gardens Over The Top – Vintage Print
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Description
This vintage poster of War Gardens Over The Top brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
War Gardens Over The Top
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This poster borrows the trench-warfare phrase "over the top," the moment soldiers climbed out of their trenches to attack, and applies it to the home front, where citizens were urged to dig in with the garden as their battlefield. Its slogan, "The Seeds of Victory Insure the Fruits of Peace," reflects the wartime push for backyard and vacant-lot vegetable gardens that eased pressure on national food supplies. The National War Garden Commission, based in Washington, D.C., sponsored the campaign. The artist, Maginel Wright Enright, was an illustrator and the sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and her color work shows how commercial art was enlisted for civic causes during the First World War.
| Created / published | c. 1919 |
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| Medium | print, poster, color, 74 x 57 cm. |
| Notes | The Seeds Of Victory Insure The Fruits Of Peace. Maginel Wright Enright. National War Garden Commission, funder/sponsor, Washington, D.C |
| Original scan | 1,151 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 38 |
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