1943 Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden
Eleanor Roosevelt plants a Victory Garden on the White House lawn, helping to popularize Americans’ patriotic duty to grow their own food during the Second World War so that larger farms can send more produce to troops overseas.
Bentley, Amy, (1998). Eating for victory : food rationing and the politics of domesticity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN0252067274. OCLC 38168249.
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Sandra and Gary Baden Collection of Celebrity Endorsements in Advertising.