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Be a Victory Farm Volunteer
Photograph of a boy and a Girl with a field full of people harvesting crops. This propaganda poster endorsed the idea that it was important for the population to grow food. Furthermore, this poster demonstrates that tending the food supply was an…
Homemaker's War Guide
Chart describing the proper nutrition the home front population should be eating. This poster informed the home front population on all the ways that they could conserve and reuse items in order to make them last. The propaganda poster provides…
Where Our Men are Fighting, Our Food is Fighting
Food crate being parachuted down accompanied with two soldiers. FDR's administration valued food. They constantly told the home front population how important it was. They endorsed the policy of having Americans grow their own food because it…
Food is a Weapon: Don't Waste it!
Empty plate with bones on it. This poster shows the importance that food had during the Second World War. In his speeches, Franklin Roosevelt, constantly referred to food being a powerful resource, and often equated the value of food to being as…
Fill It! Help Harvest War Crops
Empty basket being held by two hands, farm fields in the background with people harvesting crops. This propaganda poster advertises two things. The first is the importance of participating in the growing of food. Even if you were unable to grow your…
Eat the Basic 7: Every Day!
Food wheel that demonstrates how much food and what types of food should be eaten. This poster informs the population on the various foods that they should eat in order to have a healthy diet. There is an emphasis on produce, as three of the seven…
Grow it Yourself: Plan a Farm Garden Now!
Poster of vegetable farm garden being watered. This propaganda poster encourages the home front to grow the type of garden that will supply an abundance of food.The poster tells the home front to grow a "Farm Garden", which reflects the idea that a…
Ours to Fight For: Freedom From Want
Visual interpretation of FDR's Four Freedom's speech. A family sitting down to to eat turkey dinner. Norman Rockwell painted a series of four pictures interpreting Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech. This image demonstrates the third…
The Four Freedoms: Message to the 77th Congress, January 6, 1941
Poster of FDR's Four Freedom Speech. The idea of freedom was very important to Franklin Roosevelt. He gave a speech highlighting the types of freedom that he believed people should have. One of these four freedoms was freedom form want. Although it…
War Gardens For Victory: Grow Vitamins At Your Kitchen Door
A girl holding a basket of vegetables and a hoe. Even though growing a victory garden actually required labor intensive work, propaganda posters emphasized the ease of having fresh vegetables, full of vitamins, in close proximity. The home front…