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Bloemzakken.
Flower bags.
I found my first flower bag at a flea market when I was in high school. I started to inquire about my surroundings, but it took several years before I found any flour sacks and started to hear about the history of food aid from America during the First World War. That search eventually led to the Herbert Hoover Library in Iowa, where about 450 flower bags embroidered in Belgium are kept. The Belgi…
Subject
- World War I
- Home Front
- Manufacture
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914
- 1918
- 1918
- 1914
- 1918
- 1914
Subject
- World War I
- Home Front
- Manufacture
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914
- 1918
- 1918
- 1914
- 1918
- 1914
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2014-03-02 13:28:17 UTC
- 2014-03-02
- 2014-03-02
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/4e8b7d30cb25cde2b394198c3c27a0e7
Places
- Western Front
- Belgium
- United Nations
Provenance
- HI02
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/13978
- 13978
Language
- nld
- Nederlands
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
- EnrichEuropeana
Year
- 1914
- 1918
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:29:55.338Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z