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
- 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-58.
Text on the object
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.]
