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Come into the garden dad!, World War I poster from Canada (c. 1918), Archives of Ontario poster collection (I0016363)Victory Gardens became popular in Canada in 1917. Under the Ministry of Agriculture's campaign, "A Vegetable Garden for Every Home", residents of cities, towns and villages utilized backyard spaces to plant vegetables for personal use and war eff
The United States School Garden Army (USSGA), was founded by the Bureau of Education [1] [2] in 1917 during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson's. [3] Wilson described gardening as "just as real and patriotic an effort as the building of ships or the firing of cannon" [ 4 ] and opined that "food will win the war". [ 5 ]
A poster promoting the planting of victory gardens by American civilians. The government encouraged people to plant vegetable gardens to help prevent food shortages. Magazines such as Saturday Evening Post and Life printed articles supporting it, while women's magazines included directions for planting. [233]
The British "Dig on for Victory" poster promoted victory gardens. One new speciality was harvesting timber, for which the government set up the Women's Timber Corps, a branch of the Women's Land Army that operated 1942-46. [32] For city and urban residents, the government promoted Victory Gardens that grew
From April 1917, recruited by the Division of Pictorial Publicity, he executed propaganda posters targeting Germany and serving to mobilize the American war effort (Join the Air Service and serve in France in 1917; What Are You Doing? Can Vegetables, Fruit and the Kaiser Too in 1918 for the National War Garden Commission). All his work is ...
James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960) was an American artist, comics artist, and illustrator.He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1917 poster of Uncle Sam created for United States Army recruitment during World War I.
Slogans like "Digging for Victory" and "Make Do and Mend" appeared on national posters and became a part of the war effort. The city environment made these efforts nearly negligible. [15] In the more remote country villages, however, clandestine slaughtering, vegetable gardens and the availability of milk products permitted survival.
The American Schools at War program was a program during World War II run by the U.S. Treasury Department, in which schoolchildren set goals to sell stamps and bonds to help the war effort. The program was also administered by the U.S. Office of Education , the Federal government agency that interfaced with the nation's school systems and its ...