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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DESIGNER UNKNOWN BE A VICTORY FARM VOLUNTEER IN THE U.S. CROP CORPS. 1943. 22x14 inches, 56x35 1/2 cm. U.S. Government Printing Office. Condition B+ / A-: vertical and horizontal folds. Paper. In 1943, a shortage of man power on the home front during World War II led Congress to create the Emergency Farm Labor Service, an organization dedicated to getting able-bodied workers onto farms to help with plantings and harvest. Within this organization was the U.S. Crop Corps, whose subdivisions included the Women's Land Army and the Victory Farm Volunteers. The latter group was students aged 11 to 17 who aided in farm work for the duration of the program's four and a half-year's in existence. Ironically, given that this image was designed and printed by the U.S. Government just years before the onset of the Cold War, this anonymous images bears a striking and unmistakable resemblance to El Lissitsky's seminal image for the Russische Ausstellung from 1929.
