Semez du bleacute. Cest de lor pour la France – Historic 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 Semez du bleacute. Cest de lor pour la France 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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Semez du bleacute. Cest de lor pour la France
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Semez du blé! C'est de l'or pour la France" (grow wheat, it is gold for France) turns a farm crop into a patriotic duty, and Suzanne Ferrand's 1918 lithograph pairs wheat and a scythe with the French flag. The design belongs to the wartime effort to keep France fed while many farmworkers were at the front, when grain was treated as a national resource and women and older workers were urged to fill the gaps in the fields. Posters like this were printed in quantity and pasted in towns and villages, where they asked ordinary readers to give their time and labor to the war effort.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 55 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Grow wheat. It is gold for France. Signed: Suzanne Ferrand. Another issue: POS - Fr .E26 no. 9 (with same title 54 x 36 cm.). Promotional goal: Fr. J72. 1918. Item is no. 229 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. BZZ · Preissig Vojtech artist. |
| Subjects | Wheat--1910-1920. Scythes--19110-1920. Flags--French--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--France. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,799 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 941_Semez_du_bleacute_Cest_1918 |
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