ARTV03823 - Grow your own vegetables
Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
- ID number
- ARTV03823
- Title
- Grow your own vegetables
- Artists
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- Commonwealth Food Control;
- Unknown;
- Unknown;
- Object type
- Poster
- Place made
- Australia
- Date made
- 1944
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Measurement
- overall: 76 cm x 51 cm
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- This poster was designed to encourage people to grow their own vegetables and to keep chooks 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.
