Office of War Information poster, no. 34. 1943. 28 x 22.
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“This poster was part of the publicity for a brilliantly mounted campaign to encourage the use of homegrown foods. Because commercially canned goods were rationed, the Victory Garden became an indispensable source of food for the home front. The Victory Garden was a household activity during the war and one of the most well received of all home front chores. At its peak, it is estimated that nearly 20,000,000 gardens were grown and about 40 percent of all vegetables produced in the U.S. came from Victory Gardens. By the end of the war the Department of Agriculture estimated total home front production of over one million tons of vegetables valued at 85 million dollars.

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Watch 1941 English Allotment Gardens

Allotment Easter – Victory Gardeners

“The delights of the seaside were put aside this Bank Holiday in favour of work on the land. Everywhere available plots were being ploughed up and sown.”

“Various shots of men working on their allotments and of open spaces being dug up for same. The location in one case is Hyde Park. Shots of motor plough at work. Mr Perrin and Paul Wyand have a humorous interlude as amateur gardeners. They throw refuse into each others gardens. Shot of Mr Perrin with a lawn mower.”