About this image...

Image Title: Registered War Garden Under Protection Of State Council Of Defense, 1918

Creator: Dingo, J. N., artist

Date: 1918

Summary: Poster showing a cartoon from the Chicago Evening Post of a farmer waving a banner "War Gardens" as his cannon made from a bushel basket fires produce and a German figure sky high.

Notes: Title continues: All the Ammunition doesn't come from the powder factories. Feed yourself. Be a soldier of the soil. A war garden will do it. Exempt no land. To destroy the food supply is to give comfort to the enemy. Food will win the war.

Subjects: Cannons--1910-1920
Food supply--1910-1920
Victory gardens--1910-1920
World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States

Original Media: Poster|Lithograph

Collections: Posters: World War I Posters » more info...

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