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Children's Gardens in Chicago
Victory garden community plot in a vacant lot. School victory gardens were often produced in previously vacant lots. This is an image of one of the gardens that World War II home front children grew as both a school project and a way to participate…
Victory Garden Handbook: A Guide for Victory Gardeners in New York and Neighboring States
Victory garden handbook and advice manual informing and advising the home front population on how to grow a proper victory garden.
Local governments provided manuals to instruct the home front population on the proper and best way to grow a…
Local governments provided manuals to instruct the home front population on the proper and best way to grow a…
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…
Victory Garden Song List
Screen capture of iTunes song list titled Victory Garden. The World War II victory garden seems to be a thing of the past, however, approximately seventy years after the most prominent era of government-endorsed gardening, the term victory garden…
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…
Time Line: The rise of the Victory Garden
This timeline highlights the major periods in American history where the government endorsed and encouraged the United States to participate in the growing of a garden. It shows that government-endorsed gardening is deeply rooted in United States…
Timeline: The Rise of Government Endorsed Gardening (Part 2 of 2)
This timeline highlights the major periods in American history where the government endorsed and encouraged the United States to participate in the growing of a garden. It shows that government-endorsed gardening is deeply rooted in United States…
Album Art Victory Garden: John & Mary
Cover Art for an album titled Victory Garden. Out of all of the songs, albums, and bands who use the name Victory Garden, this is the album with the closest ties to nature. Many of the songs on this album refer to some part of nature, even though…
Victory Garden Cover Art: Laura Barrett
Cover art for the album victory garden. The songs on this album titled "Victory Gardens" are more nature-oriented and whimsical. They support the more positive emotional response to the World War II victory garden, demonstrating the continuation of…
The Victory Garden
A girl saves her neighbor's victory garden by getting her classmates to tend the garden. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way…