This 1918 exhibit celebrated the 'War Gardens' movement, a World War I campaign led by the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense to encourage citizens to grow their own vegetables. By cultivating home gardens, families conserved commercially grown food for American troops and Allied nations overseas. Statistics displayed in the exhibit - citing thousands of gardens and hundreds of cultivated acres - underscore the scale of civilian participation in this home-front food conservation effort, a direct forerunner of the World War II 'Victory Garden' campaign. Project: 218708