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Title	Tennessee Home Food, Pegram Farm
Theme	Transforming the Economy
Subtheme	Agriculture
Subject-LCSH	Farms
Geographic Location	United States -- Tennessee -- Waverly
County Name	Humphreys County
Description	Black and white photograph taken on what appears to be a summer day. In the foreground and middle ground are rows of plants growing in a large field with a line of men and women standing at the ends of the rows, against a backdrop including woods, a one-story house with metal roof and front shed porch, and a wood garage structure with a sign reading Clabber Girl Baking Powder.
Historical Note	The home food supply program was initiated by Tennessee Governor Prentice Cooper (1895-1969) after he came into office in 1939 as a patriotic means by which citizens could help the economy during World War II. More than 200,000 Tennessee farm families signed enrollment cards and planted gardens to boost their own production.
Genre	Photograph
Contributing Institution	Tennessee Agricultural Museum
Conditions for use	Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only.
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University