They serve France. How can I serve Canada? Buy victory bonds / Adapted from photo by Brown Bros. – Antique Photo 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of They serve France. How can I serve Canada? Buy victory bonds / Adapted from photo by Brown Bros.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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They serve France. How can I serve Canada? Buy victory bonds / Adapted from photo by Brown Bros.
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The poster's title makes its argument: French women are plowing fields while their men serve, and it asks Canadians what they will do in return. Adapted from a photograph by Brown Bros., the color lithograph uses a scene of women working French farmland to urge Canadians to buy victory bonds. By 1915, many French men of farming age had been called to the front, so women, older men and children took on plowing, planting and harvesting to keep food production going. The design turns that rural labor into a direct appeal to civilians, presenting bond purchases as a way to share in the war effort.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 90 x 61 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [S.l. : s.n., 1915] |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Canada. War bonds & funds--Canada--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Women--France. Plowing--France--1910-1920. Farming--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,520 × 5,662 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225831 |
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