Before television and radio, posters were an important form of mass media. Especially during World War I, posters represented a necessary and effective way to mobilize the American homefront. They were particularly helpful in spreading the "garden gospel." For more information about the history of World War I poster art, please click on the link below.
For a gallery of World War 1 gardening and food conservation posters produced in the United States, click below. And check back: new images are added on a regular basis.
World War 1 Gardening/Food Conservation Posters
- "Liberty Sowing the Seeds of Victory." Created by the National War Garden Commission. Artist: Dumond.
- "War Gardens Over the Top." Created for the United States School Garden Army. Artist: Maginal Wright (Barney) Enright, a noted children's artist and sister of Frank Lloyd Wright.
- "Helping Hoover in our U.S. School Garden." Created by the U.S. Food Administration to promote school gardening. Artist unknown.
- "Will You Have a Part in Victory?" Created by the National War Garden Commission. Artist: James Montgomery Flagg.
- "Every Garden a Peace Plant." Post-Armistice piece produced by the United States School Garden Army. Artist: Maginal Wright (Barney) Enright.
- "The Fruits of Victory." Created by the National War Garden Commission. Artist: Jacobs.
- "Can the Kaiser" poster issued by the National War Garden Commission. Artist: Verrees.
