America the Hope of All Who Suffer, the Dread of All Who Wrong: Save Food and Defeat Frightfulness

A quotation attributed to Whittier sits beside a draped allegorical woman and a ragged crowd pointing toward a fallen, emaciated figure in the foreground, over the slogan 'Save Food'. The poster ties a literary line about America's moral standing to a food-saving request and to the wartime word 'frightfulness' for German conduct. The scan is cropped at the right, so the closing words are cut off.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Fear appeal Transfer

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, War and the military
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-148.

Text on the object

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

"America
the hope of
all who
suffer-
the dread
of all who
wrong."
WHITTIER

Save Foo[d]
UNITED STATES FOOD [ADMINISTRATION]

[artist's signature, partly legible]

Bracketed letters are cut off at the edge of the scan and supplied from NARA's title: 'Save Food and defeat frightfulness.'