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In this letter to Governor Payne Ratner, Beulah Mongold of Topeka, Kansas, proposes that all vacant lots in town be utilized as Victory Gardens because "every foot of ground should be at work." A complete transcription is available by clicking "Text Version" below.
Creator: Mongold, Beulah
Date: January 23, 1942
Item Number: 217012
Call Number: Governor's Files, Governor Ratner, Box 20, Folder 4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 217012
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Ratner, Payne Harry
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1930-1945 (US_Benchmark 2) - World War II home front (Indicator 6)
Date - 1940s - 1942
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Ratner, Payne Harry
Home and Family - Daily life - Gardening - Vegetable
Military - Wars - World War II
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Ratner, Payne, 1896-1974
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/217012