Vintage military poster encouraging people to

20th century U.S. military history print of a school girl operating the plow, along with the caption Join the United States School Garden Army at the top. Created in 1917 by the War Department, the USSGA's main purpose was to encourage school children to indulge in gardening, and by Armistice Day, it had received several million responses from school children, all of whom had enlisted as Soldiers of the Soil

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