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title: Certificate of Farm War Service
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/certificate-of-farm-war-service-1943/
description: 'Blank-name certificate for farm families: a large blue V under ornamental borders, the text ''This certifies that This Family is enlisted in all-out farm'
section: Collection
---

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[![Certificate of Farm War Service, 1943 US poster: Blank-name certificate for farm families](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/certificate-of-farm-war-service-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/certificate-of-farm-war-service-1943.jpg)

# Certificate of Farm War Service

Blank-name certificate for farm families: a large blue V under ornamental borders, the text 'This certifies that This Family is enlisted in all-out farm war production, 1943', signed by Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, with a 'Food for Freedom' seal. Casting farm output as enlistment fuses the family's identity with military service.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Certificate of Farm War Service
This certifies that
This Family
is enlisted in all-out farm war production
1943
[imprint: round seal] UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 1862 AGRICULTURE IS THE FOUNDATION OF MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCE 1889
[signature:] Claude R. Wickard
SECRETARY of AGRICULTURE
[imprint: round emblem] FOOD FOR FREEDOM
COUNTY U.S.D.A. WAR BOARD
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943 - O - 514906
```

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