Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement

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221 index Addams, Jane, 96, 99, 117–18 Addis, Lillian Crawford, 146 advertising: American Girl Company, 178; Beechnut Seeds, 138; Click, 120–22, 138; housing, 136; International Harvester, 138; Ladies’ Home Journal, 138; Time, 138 African Americans, 57, 78, 123, 144. See also race agrarian myth, 30, 87 Agricultural Organisation Society of Britain (AOS), 31, 74 agricultural training. See training (Britain); training (United States) agriculture (Britain): agricultural organizations (1880–1920), 8, 25, 28–31, 34–36, 43, 62; agricultural organizations (1920–2000), 155; pre–First World War activism in, 8, 10, 12, 17–18, 22, 25–31; labor demographics, 17–18. See also Agricultural Organisation Society; colleges and universities: programs for agricultural training; Prothero, Roland; training (Britain); Warwick, Lady Frances Evelyn “Daisy” Maynard Grenville, Countess of ; Women’s Institute (WI); Women’s Land Army (Britain) agriculture (United States): agricultural organizations (1880–1920), 43–44, 62; demographics and labor numbers, 81; Grange movement, 19; pre–First World War, 2–4, 10, 12, 19 Alaskan agriculture, 88 Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 25–26 Americanization, 57–58, 88, 139 Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 27 animal husbandry, 37, 119, 126. See also chickens; cows; poultry apples. See fruits Appling, Mary, 145, 172 Arkansas suffrage activism, 15 Asquith, Henry Herbert, 36 Atlantic Charter, 132, 158 Australian agriculture: gardening, 87; international policy, 148; leadership of wartime agriculture, 6, 29, 37, 74, 108, 127, 154; women’s suffrage movements, 16 Australian Women’s Land Army (AWLA), 38, 127 bananas. See fruits Bancroft Elementary School, 180–81 222 index beans. See vegetables beauty and grooming, 25–26, 37, 120, 122, 126, 138–39 beets. See vegetables berries. See fruits Blatch, Harriot Stanton: association with National Women’s Party, 24; Fabian Society (Britain), 23; First World War social activism, 15, 43–44, 58, 63; Food Administration Speakers Bureau and, 43; international training and activism, 23–25; interwar years 93–98, 105, 116– 18, 181; pre–First World War activism, 6, 15, 23–24; United States Employment Service and, 43; Women’s Franchise League and, 23; Women’s Land Army of America (WLAA) leadership, 30–31, 46, 54, 60, 68, 78; Women’s Local Government Society (Britain), 23 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. See Ministry of Agriculture (Britain) bomb crater gardens, 154–55, 159 Boy Scouts of America, 77, 140 Bracero program, 127. See also migrant labor bread, 20, 99, 144, 169 Bright Young People, 95 Britannia, 37. See also image of women British politics: Conservative Party, 23, 35; Labour Party, 5, 17, 23, 25–26; Liberal Party, 5, 29; Margaret Winteringham, 98; Prince Edward’s relationship with Countess Warwick and, 25–26 broccoli. See vegetables butter, 75, 138, 169 cabbage. See vegetables California agriculture: 48, 81, 122–23, 145; Alice K.Parsons, 81; Jeanne W.Dennen, 81. See also Appling, Mary; colleges and universities; food campaigns; programs for agricultural training; school programs ; War Garden Days; Werner, Mel Camp Fire Girls of America, 140 Canadian agriculture: First World War, 38, 87, 127, 154; post–Second World War, 171; pre–First World War, 29 canning and preserving: 4, 6, 65, 82, 139, 148–49, 156; commercially canned foods, 169; in propaganda posters (United States), 89, 147 cauliflower. See vegetables carrots. See vegetables chickens, 119, 145. See also poultry citrus. See fruits Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 103. See also Roosevelt, Franklin D. clothing: rationing, 41, 75–76, 95, 124; style influences of, 178; uniforms, 53, 124–25, 168. See also Stevens, Helen Kennedy Click, 120–22, 138 Cochran, Vina, 126 colleges and universities: Barnard College, 43; Blackburn College, 48; Cambridge, 30; Cornell University, 48; Glassboro State Teachers’ College, 122; Lindenwood College, 81; Massachusetts Agricultural College, 48; Michigan Agricultural College; 117; Peabody College for Teachers, 48; Pennsylvania School of Horticulture, 48; programs for agricultural training 35, 36, 41, 43, 44, 48, 51, 101, 113, 116, 122; Radcliffe College, 122; Seale Hayne College, 33; Smith College, 48; students as agricultural laborers, 112, 118, 120, 130; Swanley College, 25, 27; Oxford University, 26; University of California, 122; University of Connecticut, 122; University of Maryland , 122–24; University of Virginia, 48; University of Wisconsin, 48; Vassar, 23; Wellesley College, 48 communism, 176, 185 index 223 community gardening, 65, 80, 83, 137, 178, 197n41 Congress, United States: pre–First World War, 15; First World War, 43; interwar years, 94; Second World War, 116, 124, 131, 133, 154 Connecticut agriculture, 48, 115, 122 Conservative Party, 23, 25. See also British politics corn. See vegetables cows, 27...