War gardens over the top. The seeds of victory insure the fruits of peace / Maginel Wright Enright. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with War gardens over the top. The seeds of victory insure the fruits of peace / Maginel Wright Enright., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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War gardens over the top. The seeds of victory insure the fruits of peace / Maginel Wright Enright.
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Few wartime posters borrow the language of the trenches as openly as this one, which turns the soldier's phrase "over the top" into a call to dig rather than charge. Maginel Wright Enright, an illustrator and sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, created the design for the National War Garden Commission, a private group that urged Americans to grow their own vegetables so that commercial food could go to troops and allies overseas. The slogan's second half, that seeds insure the fruits of peace, reflects the idea that home food production would still matter after the fighting ended. Dated 1919, the poster shows how victory gardening was presented as a civic duty during the period of food conservation.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 74 x 57 cm. |
| Notes | Copyright by National War Garden Commission. Promotional goal: U.S. J7. 1919. Title from item. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress 2003. DLC · National War Garden Commission funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | Victory gardens--United States--1910-1920. Vegetables--United States--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,151 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1840_War_gardens_over_the_to_1919 |
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