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title: Every child needs a good school lunch
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/every-child-needs-school-lunch-1944/
description: 'School lunch program poster: a large stylised boy in a baseball cap catches a ball, a small girl sits in the lower left.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Every child needs a good school lunch, 1944 US poster: School lunch program poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/every-child-needs-school-lunch-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/every-child-needs-school-lunch-1944.jpg)

# Every child needs a good school lunch

School lunch program poster: a large stylised boy in a baseball cap catches a ball, a small girl sits in the lower left, and a photographic boy eats a tray lunch with milk and fruit. The headline says every child needs a good school lunch; the foot line offers War Food Administration help to communities starting a program. The claim is broad and the scene is ordinary childhood.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
EVERY CHILD
NEEDS
A GOOD SCHOOL LUNCH
THE WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION WILL HELP YOUR COMMUNITY START A
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944 [remainder illegible]
[signature:] [illegible]
```

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