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title: 'Be Patriotic: Sign Your Country''s Pledge to Save the Food'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-patriotic-sign-pledge-to-save-the-food-1917/
description: A woman in a stars-and-stripes dress and cap, signed 'Paul Stahr', faces the viewer with both hands held out in appeal beneath the line 'Be Patriotic'.
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# Be Patriotic: Sign Your Country's Pledge to Save the Food

A woman in a stars-and-stripes dress and cap, signed 'Paul Stahr', faces the viewer with both hands held out in appeal beneath the line 'Be Patriotic'. The caption asks the viewer to sign the country's pledge to save food. The tell: the flag-draped figure turns a household pledge card into a test of patriotism, with the national symbol doing the asking.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

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

```
Be Patriotic
sign your country's
pledge to save the food

U.S.FOOD ADMINISTRATION

Paul Stahr

[lower left: N° 4]  [lower right: THE W.F. POWERS CO. LITHO. N.Y.]
```

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