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Women’s Land Army of America and U.S. School Garden Army Bibliography 

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ.

Archival

• Acc. 1 Fair Lane Papers
  • box 145 Berry Schools (Mt. Berry, Georgia) correspondence with Martha Berry, 1942-1950 and undated (mention of Berry farmerettes, essays written by Berry farmerettes)
  • box 162 Bulletin, 1918 (bulletins with information about WLA and uniforms and mention of U.S. School Garden Army)
     
• RC. 19 Paper Doll Collection
  • box 5 size B Army and Navy Wedding Party: Air, Land & Sea, 1943
     
• RC. 39 Poster Collection
  • box 2 size C IDs 90.0.237.1-94.117.21, “Follow the Pied Piper: Join the United States School Garden Army”, 1917
  • box 10 size F IDs 89.0.565.53-89.0.565.72, “Raised ‘Em Myself in My U.S. School Garden”, 1918 and “Helping Hoover in Our U.S. School Garden”, 1918
  • OS size K ID 53.5.118.1 “For Every Fighter A Woman Worker”, 1918 (WLA) 
     
• Acc. 2001.48.36 Connecticut Women’s Land Army Scrapbook, 1943 
   
• Acc. 2018.0.10 Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association Photographs, 1918 

Oral Histories

• 65_82 Inez Henry (mention of Berry girls farming), WWII
• 65_96 M. Gordon Keown (mention of Berry girls farming), WWII

Books

• On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II. Stephanie A. Carpenter
     940.53 C297 2003  
• Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War. Elaine F. Weiss
     940.373 W429 2008
• Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II. Emily Yellin
     940.53 Y43 2004