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title: 'Members of U.S. Food Administration: America Has Promised to Feed the Hungry Millions of Europe, Waste Nothing'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/america-food-pledge-20-million-tons-1917-1919/
description: A landscape window card shows a red roundel inside a wheat wreath reading 'America's food pledge 20 million tons'.
section: Collection
---

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# Members of U.S. Food Administration: America Has Promised to Feed the Hungry Millions of Europe, Waste Nothing

A landscape window card shows a red roundel inside a wheat wreath reading 'America's food pledge 20 million tons', beside a headline that America has promised to feed Europe's hungry, the Allies and liberated nations, and the words 'waste nothing'. The tell is the membership frame, which makes the display itself a badge of belonging to the pledge, paired with a stated national quantity.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
America's
food pledge
20 million
tons

we co-operate with the Govern-
ment to fulfil this obligation

MEMBER OF
U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION

America has promised
to feed the hungry
millions of Europe
— the Allies and
liberated nations

waste nothing

[tiny printer's line, lower right: THE STROBRIDGE LITHO. CO. CIN. O.]
```

The printer's line at the lower right is very small; the reading of the printer's name is uncertain.

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