On the home front during World War II, New Yorkers received a regular diet of good and bad news through screaming headlines on the front pages of the city’s tabloids. Illustrator and satirist Rick Meyerowitz’s father, Hy, kept dozens of these front pages. Rick has collected, framed and organized them to tell the tale of Nazi and Axis victories, missteps and ultimate defeat. The type on these pages, known as “woods,” dating back to old 19th century wood types, are the stuff of
Anon. artist, 1945.
D 7560. A housewife puts a pair of old Wellington boots and a rubber hot water bottle out for salvage. Also on the pile to be collected by the salvage van are tins paper and glass
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TR 1152. Mrs Shadwell a housewife doing needlework in the sitting room of her home in the village of Freefolk Hampshire.
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~ British Home Front poster, c. 1914-1918 via Imperial War Museum
G. G. Bain Pawn Shop, 15 Cooper Square, New York 1920 The other day I stumbled upon an image that got me thinking. I’m still thinking. And I doubt I’ll be done anytime soon. So perhaps it’s a good idea to simply share both the image and my thoughts, and invite you to share what
Q 27815. Two disabled soldiers at No. 4 London General Hospital. Note the 'Hospital Blue' uniform worn by the soldiers.
D 18062. The Women's Land Army (WLA): Informal gathering of Land Army girls by the fireside of an old cottage.
Since farmers could not grow enough food forHave you ever asked your parents, “What’s for dinner?” I know I have. During World War II, making a healthy, delicious meal was difficult. A lot of the food grown by the United States was needed to feed soldiers fighting overseas. Not much was left for the people at home. So what did the people on the home front do? The answer was simple and something we can still do today. Grow your own food! Victory gardens, were an easy solution.
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Mr J W Barlow, planting flowers on the roof of his air-raid shelter.
D 2374. Interior view of a grocer's shop with goods piled high on and behind the counter. The grocer offers a product to a woman customer. Egg substitutes and mixtures requiring no eggs are much in evidence
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Q 30036. Munitions workers paint shells in the National Shell Filling Factory at Chilwell Nottinghamshire during the First World War.
While Chamberlain tried to avoid war at all costs, it was not to be. On the 3rd September 1939 at 1115 hours, the British Prime Minister, N...
The RCAF created a special squadron that flew wartime mail back and forth between the home front and the men and women overseas.
The RCAF created a special squadron that flew wartime mail back and forth between the home front and the men and women overseas.
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As they had during World War I, people on the home front during World War II picked up their knitting needles almost as soon as the war began in September 1939. Only two months later, these girls a…
Stirring photos of women on the home front in Britain during the Blitz era. Thanks to the marvelous collection of the Imperial War Museum
The hubby and I will be out most of today so we will be eating out. In the war people ate out as a way to stretch their rations further as restaurants were exempt from rationing. This led to resentment as the rich could afford to eat out regularly and extravagantly. To restrict this rules were put in place no meal could cost more than five shillings; no meal could consist of more than three courses; meat and fish could not be served at the same sitting. Establishments known as British Restaurants were set up by the Ministry of Food. They supplied another almost universal experience of eating away from home. British Restaurants were run by local authorities, who set them up in various premises such as schools and church halls. By mid-1941 the London County Council was operating 200 of these restaurants; during 1942 to 1944 there were around two thousand of them. Here a three-course meal cost only 9d. Standards varied, but the best were greatly appreciated and had a large regular clientele. Similar schemes were run in other towns and cities.
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How Britain evacuated its children during the Second World War.
