The woman's land army of America. Women enlist now and help the farmer fight the food famine

The woman's land army of America. Women enlist now and help the farmer fight the food famine

Item Information

Title:
The woman's land army of America. Women enlist now and help the farmer fight the food famine
Description:
Image of two female wartime farm laborers. A third woman follows on horseback, holding an American flag.
Artist:
Paus, Herbert Andrew, 1880-1946
Sponsor:
Women's Land Army of America
Date:
1918
Format:
Posters
Prints
Genre:
War posters
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Print Department Collection
Subjects:
Agriculture
Women
War work
Food supply
Recruiting & enlistment
World War, 1914-1918
Women's Land Army of America
Places:
United States
Extent:
1 print (poster) : lithograph, color
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ft848v796
Terms of Use:
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No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
The creation of the Woman's Land Army of America in WW I enabled nearly 20,000 urban women to enter America's agricultural sector to work as ordinary wage laborers between 1917 and 1921. The active recruitment of urban women into a government-sanctioned, formally organized, and larely female-managed workforce, to labor in physically demanding tasks such as sowing and harvesting, was a revolutionary idea.
Accession #:
07_01_000078