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title: Don't Stop Saving Food
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dont-stop-saving-food-1917-1919/
description: Large cream lettering on a dark blue field reads 'Don't stop saving food', with the Food Administration seal and name at the foot.
section: Collection
---

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[![Don't Stop Saving Food, 1917 US poster: Large cream lettering on a dark blue field reads 'Don't stop saving food'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-stop-saving-food-1917-1919.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-stop-saving-food-1917-1919.jpg)

# Don't Stop Saving Food

Large cream lettering on a dark blue field reads 'Don't stop saving food', with the Food Administration seal and name at the foot. The sheet gives no reason, figure or named beneficiary, so the persuasive load rests on the command itself and the unstated cause behind it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
don't
stop
saving
food

UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION

306
M. B. BROWN PTG. & BDG. CO. N.Y.
```

The small number at lower left and the printer's imprint at lower right are in very small type; the number is read as 306 with some doubt.

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