Cultivons Notre Potager – Antique 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 Cultivons Notre Potager. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cultivons Notre Potager
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A color lithograph signed by Louisette Jaeger, a fourteen-year-old, sets this 1918 poster apart from the many wartime appeals on the board. Its French title, *Cultivons Notre Potager*, urges readers to grow their own vegetable plot, and the cabbages, potatoes and carrots drawn across the sheet show what such a garden was meant to produce. Printed near the end of the war, it reflects the push for home food production in France as shortages strained household supplies. The Canada Food Board is listed among its sponsors, a reminder that food-conservation campaigns of the period crossed national borders.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 56 x 38 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Lets grow a victory garden. Signed: Louisette Jaeger 14 ans. Promotional goal: Fr. J72. 1918. Item is no. 219 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. BZZ · Canada Food Board funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | Cabbage--1910-1920. Potatoes--1910-1920. Carrots--1910-1920. Victory gardens--France--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--France. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,817 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 400_Cultivons_Notre_Potager_1918 |
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