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Gardening (1940)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
The cover of Michelle Obama's book. This book demonstrates the continuity of the policy of government-endorsed gardening. The book includes advice and instruction on gardening and it also talks about how to make different types of meals using the…
Every Child Needs A Good School Lunch
Cartoon boy and girl playing catch. Real boy eating a nutritious meal. Healthy nutrition and access to food was very important to FDR's administration. This poster told the home front that children's nutrition was especially important. In addition,…
For Work, For Play, 3 "Squares" a Day
Poster of a family's day. This propaganda poster emphasizes the importance of a balanced and healthy diet. Proper nutrition, such as the nutrition that a family could receive from the vegetables in the victory garden that they plant and tend, is…
Work on a Farm this Summer
Man with a pitchfork and Woman holding a basket of vegetables. This image encourages men and women to participate in increasing the food supply. Men and women are invited to take a break during the summer months to fight the war effort on a different…
Going our Way? Be a Victory Farm Volunteer
Girl and a boy with gardening equipment. This propaganda poster invites youth to participate and experience harvesting and growing food. They are invited to work on a farm which will help increase the food supply. This poster emphasizes the voluntary…