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Title
Firestone
World
War
II
Garden
Photograph
Subject
Military Ohio
Business and Labor
Agriculture
World War II
Victory gardens
Place
Akron (Ohio)
Summit County (Ohio)
New York (New York)
Description
This
photograph
of a
contour
garden
sponsored
by the
Firestone
Corporation
of
Akron
,
Ohio
, was
taken
around
1944
.
Many
companies
like
Firestone
supported
the
Victory
Garden
program
during
World
War
II
by
experimenting
with the
most
efficient
garden
types
. The
photograph
was
printed
in the
pamphlet
"
Manual
for
Company-Employee
Gardens
" by the
National
Victory
Garden
Institute
. The
pamphlet
is
38
long
pages
and
measures
6
"
x
9
"
(15.24
x
22.86
cm)
.
During
World
War
II
(1941-1945)
,
many
people
supplemented
the
food
they had
available
for
personal
use
by
planting
vegetable
gardens
,
both
to
support
the
war
effort
and
due
to
food
shortages
and
rationing
. The
gardens
were
promoted
widely
by the
government
and
industry
, and were
known
as "
victory
gardens
"
due
to their
importance
to the
war
effort
.
Gardens
were
planted
during
World
War
I
as
well
, but were
called
"
war
gardens
"
until
the
end
of the
war
,
when
the
term
"
victory
garden
"
came
into
use
.
Creator
National Victory Garden Institute
Date of Original
1944
circa
Collection
Manual
for
Company-Employee
Gardens
Source
Audiovisual
material
;
PA
Box
636
36
Format
picture
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om3308_4561928_004.tif
Image Height
2003
Image Width
2948
File Size
1640.662 KB
Date created
2009-01-07
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