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4-H club boys and girls exhibiting their Victory Garden posters
About this photograph
Provided by the Green 'N' Growing Collection (The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina), Special Collections, North Carolina State University Libraries.
- Date created
- c. 1943
- Location
- North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1943. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original image housed by North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center
See this photograph in context
- Effects of civil action: In this lesson, secondary students will analyze primary source materials to investigate how 4-H clubs made an impact on the home front in completing projects that supported the war effort during World War II. This lesson should be taught at the end of a World War II unit.
- Feed a fighter: In this lesson students will examine “Additional Helps for the 4-H Mobilization for Victory Program,” a Cooperative Extension Work document from the Green 'N' Growing collection at Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University Libraries. The document will help students understand the efforts civilians underwent to support military efforts in World War II.
- World War II at home: Victory Gardens: Students will learn about home front activities during World War II. Using primary source documents and photographs, students will discover how children their own age participated by growing Victory Gardens. They will design their own gardens and propaganda posters.
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- Search LEARN NC for 4-H clubs, development, farming, gardens, Green 'N' Growing, group portraits, history, North Carolina, patriotism, World War II, and youth.
In the classroom
- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
A group of 15 students are pictured in this black and white photograph showing their 4-H posters which celebrate “Victory Gardens.” Six girls are standing behind a group of kneeling boys and girls in front of some tall pine trees and a hedge.
