highland parks school victory garden
victory garden card
victory garden card used to keep track of the garden's progress. Schools provided cards, for the children participating in the victory garden program, to keep track of their gardens.
M.A. Russell
The American Biology Teacher
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.csusm.edu/stable/4437525?seq=1
University of California Press, National Association of Biology Teachers
May, 1944
M.A. Russell
Article
English
Highland Park's School Victory Garden
victory garden card
victory garden card that certifies the garden and allows for the student to keep track of their progress. Schools provided cards, for the children participating in the victory garden program, to keep track of their gardens.
M.A. Russell
The American Biology Teacher
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.csusm.edu/stable/4437525?seq=1
University of California Press, National Association of Biology Teachers
May, 1944
M.A. Russell
Article
English
Children's Gardens in Chicago
School victory garden
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 in the war effort.
Fred G. Heuchling
The American Biology Teacher
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.csusm.edu/stable/4437481
University of California Press, National Association of Biology Teachers
February, 1944
Fred G. Heuchling
Article
English
Children's gardens in Chicago
School victory garden
Student display of a victory garden. School aged children were the main people group that participated in the growing of victory gardens. They would spend the spring and summer months growing vegetables and taking care of plants. When the following school year started kids were invited to display and showcase the vegetables that they worked so hard on growing.
Fred G. Heuchling
The American Biology Teacher
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.csusm.edu/stable/4437481
University of California Press, National Association of Biology Teachers
February, 1944
Fred G. Heuchling
Article
English
Children's Gardens in Chicago
Garden Layout advice
Diagram of how to lay out a victory garden in order to grow vegetables successfully. Images like this one were used to provide the home front population with a guide as to the correct way to layout their victory garden. The diagram provides the measurements for proper spacing between crops. It is tailored for smaller sized gardens, for homes with smaller yards, or for community garden plots in cities. This is the size garden that a child could easily tend to.
Fred G. Heuchling
The American Biology Teacher
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.csusm.edu/stable/4437481
University of California Press, National Association of Biology Teachers
February, 1944
Fred G. Heuchling
Article
English
Wartime Nutrition (1943)
Propaganda Film
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 happen if we do not change our eating habits. It also highlights the issue of rationing and assures American's that rationing could be worse like our allied friends in England.
U.S. Office of War Information
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/WartimeN1943
1943
Public Domain
English
Gardening (1940)
propaganda gardening film
Instructional film on how to garden. Propaganda instructional videos told the population what they should be doing to help win the war. This film teaches the population how to properly tend and grow vegetables. It focuses mostly on the children producing theses gardens, however the film does include parents which demonstrate the importance of having family victory garden.
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/Gardening_2
1940
Public Domain
English
Henry Browne, Farmer (1942)
Propaganda film
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 Browne family also tended their own private victory garden. The other important thing to note about this video is that they used an African American family, most of the other propaganda videos casted white families. This propaganda video attempts to include a segment of the population that had been discriminated against since the foundings of our country.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/HenryBro1942
1942
Public Domain
English
Brownie's Victory Garden
Propaganda film
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 encouraging children to grow their own gardens.
Official Films, Inc.
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/6134_Brownies_Victory_Garden_00_29_12_00
Between 1939-1945
Public Domain
English
Victory Gardens
WWII film propaganda
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 a garden by having children being the ones to tend and grow the family's victory garden. These videos encouraged kids and provided a way for them to participate in the war effort by tending a victory garden.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/victory_garden
Between 1939-1945
Public Domain
English