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Your Victory Garden Counts More Than Ever!
A pile of vegetables in the foreground, garden being tended by a man and a woman. Propaganda posters held an emotional appeal. Their bright colors and catch slogans were used to convince the home front population that it was not only their patriotic…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Victory Garden Album Cover Art: Bill Mallonee & Victory Garden
Band who titled their album Victory Garden. One of the most prominent ways that the memory of the victory garden is carried on is through music. While the music does not specifically talk about WWII victory gardens, there is a song titled "Flowers"…