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

Date: 1917
Period: First World War
Made by: U.S. Food Administration
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Home front, Economy and finance
Event: World War I
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S. Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-66.

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.