Remembrance Week: Victory Bonds on the Windsor home front
Remembrance Week: a circa-1943 Victory Bond drive on Luke Road, Ford City, now in Windsor War Chest. Credit: SWODA/Leddy. Family photos, letters or stories: windsornewsdesk@gmail.com
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Windsor War Chest holds two wartime photographs of local Victory Bond fundraising: a drive on Luke Road in Ford City, circa 1943, and another at Gelatin Products Limited in Walkerville in 1943. Both show participants with campaign banners. These are documented Windsor-area events, not generic Canadian posters given a local label later.
Rights and credit
University of Windsor, Leddy Library / Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive (SWODA) identifies the Ford City photograph as from the Walkerville Times Collection, donated by Frank Storey, photographer unidentified, public domain. The Walkerville photograph was taken by Sid Lloyd and donated by Mary Templeton; also public domain. Both images on the War Chest are resized with no crop.
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