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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…
Great World War II Projects: You Can Build Yourself
Teaching Children about World War II. 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 for authors to introduce children to the Second…
World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities
Teaching World War II to kids. 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 for authors to introduce children to the Second World War.…
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…
White House Kitchen Garden
White house staff collecting vegetables in the garden. A photograph form Michelle Obama's book. The white house kitchen staff tends the vegetable garden that Michelle Obama wanted planted as a way to show the American population that gardening and…
highland parks school victory garden
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.
Highland Park's School Victory Garden
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.