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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Food Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
War Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-735 (NAID 514223).
Text on the object
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]
