Grow Your Own Vegetables Accession Number: ARTV02121

Description

This poster was designed to encourage people to grow their own vegetables and to keep chickens as part of the war effort. An image of a man wearing a hat and carrying a hoe over his right shoulder and a basket of vegetables in his left arm dominates the upper two-thirds of the poster. Underneath the image in large black lettering is written 'GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES' with a spade replacing the 'O' in 'GROW', and underneath that in smaller red lettering 'Raise your own FOWLS', next to this in the lower right corner is an image of a black chicken with three eggs.

This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

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Accession Number
ARTV02121
Publisher
Commonwealth Food Control
Classification
Art
Object Type
Poster
Measurement
Sheet: 76.4 x 51 cm
Medium
Offset lithograph on paper
Date Made
1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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