Food Will Win the War: Bakers' Honor League of Pennsylvania, 1918 US poster: A blank membership certificate framed by crossed

Food Will Win the War: Bakers' Honor League of Pennsylvania (Pledge Certificate)

A blank membership certificate framed by crossed flags, a shield, wheat, eagles and vignettes of harvest, mill and bakery, under the motto 'Food will win the war.' The text has the baker pledge to comply with all requirements of the National Food Administration, with lines for a name and for county and state administrator signatures. The design turns a compliance pledge into a badge of membership in a patriotic body.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Identity fusion Transfer

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: U.S. Food Administration for Pennsylvania (Bakers' Honor League)
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 for Pennsylvania (Bakers' Honor League). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-242.

Text on the object

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

FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR
BAKERS' HONOR LEAGUE
OF PENNSYLVANIA
This is to certify
that ____
is a member of the
Bakers' Honor League
and pledges himself to comply fully with all requirements of the
National Food Administration.
[signature: Howard Heinz]
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATOR for PENNSYLVANIA
FLOUR

'FLOUR' appears on the two barrels in the bottom vignette.