SECTIONS
Overview
1.
Introduction
2.
WWI: Citizens
as Rational and Regional
3.
WWI: Posters for
the Farm Front
4.
WWI: Illustration & Explanation,
Sobering & Dutiful
5.
Posters & Propaganda Between the Wars
6.
1930-40s-WWII: Images & Emotions, Citizens as Consumers
7.
Elevating Food, Women and Responsibility During Wartime
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Image 13, 13b, 13c
Women's Land Army Recruitment Posters
In 1943 the Women’s Land Army (WLA), as part of the Emergency Farm Labor Program, provided agricultural labor to the nation’s farmers. Under the auspices of the USDA and Extension Service, the WLA recruited, hired, and placed farm and nonfarm women over the age of 18 throughout the country during WWII. 34
Artist: Hubert Morley
for U.S. Crop Corps, USDA, 1943, 1944, 1945.
Source: Special Collections, National Agricultural Library
