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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…
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…
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…
Wartime Nutrition (1943)
Instructional video on the importance of nutrition. This propaganda video focuses on the importance of nutrition and what will happen to Americans if they do not eat the right type of food. This propaganda film serves as a warning as to what will…
Henry Browne, Farmer (1942)
Importance of contributing to the national food supply, and grow your own food. This propaganda video highlights the farm garden, and describes the important role that famers played in the war effort. In addition to growing produce for to sell, the…
Victory Gardens
Instructional video about growing a victory garden. Another way that FDR's government propagated victory gardens was through instructional videos that informed the population on how to properly tend gardens. They often highlighted the ease of growing…
Grow Your Own: Be Sure!
Red, White, and Blue "V" ribbon surrounded by vegetables. Franklin Roosevelt realized that he could use propaganda posters as a way to encourage the home front to participate in growing a victory garden. His administration used colorful posters to…
The Victory Garden PBS Podcast
Gardening advice podcast, which carries on the traditions of providing advice to people growing gardens. Out of all the ways that the victory garden has been remembered in our society since the days of World War II, the Victory Garden television…
Brownie's Victory Garden
Cartoon to encourage the population to grow victory gardens during World War II. Victory garden propaganda videos were often specifically aimed at children. This cartoon showed kids a fun and fanciful way that vegetables grew, with the hopes of…
Join us on the Farm Front! Be a Victory Farm Volunteer of the U.S. Corp
Girl and a boy posing with gardening equipment. This propaganda poster invites young boys and girls to be part of the larger movement of growing food. It encourages them to take part in a voluntary program that FDR has constantly told them to engage…