---
title: Liberty Sowing the Seeds of Victory
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liberty-sowing-the-seeds-of-victory-1917/
description: A robed female figure of Liberty with a palm frond scatters seed across a rainbow arching over small farms and a church spire.
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Liberty Sowing the Seeds of Victory

[![Liberty Sowing the Seeds of Victory, 1917 US poster: A robed female figure of Liberty with a palm frond scatters seed across](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/liberty-sowing-the-seeds-of-victory-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/liberty-sowing-the-seeds-of-victory-1917.jpg)

# Liberty Sowing the Seeds of Victory

A robed female figure of Liberty with a palm frond scatters seed across a rainbow arching over small farms and a church spire. Beneath, the sheet invites readers to write for free books to the National War Garden Commission in Washington. The tell is the allegory: the symbol of Liberty is attached to planting a home garden, so a gardening request borrows the weight of the national cause.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LIBERTY SOWING the SEEDS of VICTORY

[artist's signature, lower right of picture, partly legible: Frank V. Dumond]

Write for Free Books to
NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.

[fine print along the bottom edge, cut off by the scan edge; legible start: Charles Lathrop Pack, …; NARA's title records: Charles Lathrop Pack, President. P.S. Ridsdale, Secretary.]
```

The fine print at the bottom edge is cropped by the scan edge; only its first words are visible. The remainder in brackets comes from NARA's catalogue title. The artist's signature is partly legible.

[← The Liberty Loan Is the Cash Register of Patriotism: Has Uncle Sam Rung Up Your Bond Purchase Yet?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liberty-loan-cash-register-of-patriotism-1917/) [Major General George S. Gibbs, Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army Signal Corps →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/major-general-george-s-gibbs-chief-signal-officer-1917-1919/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer)
- [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial)
- [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account.
- [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)