Do your bit on the Food Front

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number ARTV02452
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 76 cm x 50.8 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description photolithograph in blue and black ink on paper
Location Main Bld: World War 2 Gallery: Gallery 3: Aust 43-44
Maker Unknown
Department of Commerce and Agriculture
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian Second World War poster depicting a woman wearing a headscarf, overalls and gloves. She poses smiling while she rests her right foot on a pitch fork. The poster declares 'Do your bit on the food front/ grow your own Vegetables for Victory'. Produced during the war, the poster's intention was to encourage savings and thrift, encouraging people at home in Australia to grow their own fruit and vegetables in an effort to reduce the source supply from growers and transport from interstate or overseas.