As part of our document spotlight series, today we bring you victory garden propaganda posters.
To keep a war going you need to keep the soldiers fighting fit, and for that, you need food. Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard understood this when he told the press in 1943 that “Food will win the war and write the peace.”
Uncle Sam Says, Garden to Cut Food Costs, 1917. From the Publications of the U.S. Government.
National Archives Identifier: 5711623
During both World War I and II, food supplies on the home front and abroad were tight. To alleviate the rationing problem, the Office of Civil Defense and other government agencies released multiple propaganda pieces hoping to inspire non-farming Americans to do their part and produce their own vegetables, herbs, and fruit. These posters were displayed across the nation, and like these examples, showed hard work and patriotism; Uncle Sam, America, and whole families…
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