The Victory Home: 
Food--Victory Gardens

Poster: Help Bring Them Back to You! Make Yours a Victory Home!
The metals used in canning foods were needed elsewhere, as was the food. In addition to rationing canned goods, the US government encouraged civilians to grow as much of their own food as possible in “Victory gardens”.
 
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These photos are in the American Memory collection Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 . Click on the small image to see a larger one. (Search the collection for more photos. Use the keywords, victory garden.)

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying equipment.
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Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying seed for the victory garden.
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Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying topsoil to improve the victory gardens.
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Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying plant food to improve the victory garden.
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Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Seedlings in paper cups that will be transplanted in the victory garden.

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Watering tomato plants set out in paper cups in the house preparatory to early planting in the victory garden.

Washington, D. C. Hand plow with which a Victory gardener plowed nearly two acres at the Fairlawn Avenue Victory gardens.

New York, NY. Victory gardening on the Charles Schwab estate.
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Childersburg, AL. Cousa Court defense housing project. Albert Smith working in his Victory garden.

Childersburg, Alabama. Cousa Court defense housing project. After work, Mr. and Mrs. Smith find time to work in their Victory garden behind their house.

Childersburg, AL. Cousa Court defense housing project. Defense worker irrigating his Victory garden behind his house.

Escambia Farms, FL. Elena, Kitty, John and George McLelland look over their Victory garden on a Sunday.

New York, NY. Children's school victory gardens on First Avenue between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Streets.
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Oswego, NY. A citizen working on Sunday morning in his victory garden.
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Washington, D.C. Vice President Henry A. Wallace in his victory garden.
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Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Some of the victory gardeners also had a victory flock.
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Washington, D.C. A homemade brooder used by some of the victory gardeners of the Northwest section for their "victory flocks".
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These photos are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Professor Harry Nelson of San Fransico gives his daughter and her Girl Scout friends some pointers in transplanting young vegetables.

Victory Garden Program. Secretary Plowing Boston Common.

Frequent watering of the Victory Garden is necessary during the early stages of growth.

Victory garden, Fort Stevens, Oregon.
 

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Posters

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Grow your own, can your own

You can use the land

Your victory garden counts more than ever

Plant a Victory Garden. Our Food Is Fighting.

Be sure
 

These posters are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

"You Can Make This Kind of Ammunition!!"

We're just MADE for each other . . . I water his victory garden, and he stakes my tomato plants.

Victory Garden Plots Free For Employees

Shoot to Kill - Protect Your Victory Garden
 

This poster is in the American Memory collection By the People, For the People:  Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 . Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Grow it yourself : Plan a farm garden now.
 

This poster is in the Minneapolis Public Library's Posters of the Second World War collection.

Grow your own


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Pamphlets

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These pamphlets are in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

Guide for planning the local Victory Garden Program

Victory garden: leader's handbook

Victory Garden Insect Guide

Insecticides are ammunition: use them wisely

Victory gardeners can prevent earworms from entering their corn
 

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Ads

These ads are in the Ad*Access collection of Duke University.  Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Victory gardens will help us win (Burma-Shave shaving cream)

What to do with a victory garden (Bob Hope/Pepsodent toothpaste)


This ad is in the collection at the What Did You Do in the War, Grandma site from Brown University.

Victory gardens will help stretch your point budget! (W.E. Barrett Company)
 

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