Food Will Win the War: Member of United States Food Administration (Pledge Card)
An outline-lettered window card topped by the Food Administration shield and the words 'Member of United States Food Administration' states that the household's pledge backs soldiers and Allies and asks it to eat less bread and save wheat. The tell is membership: the signer is given a displayed badge of belonging to the war effort, with a concrete request attached.
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, War and the military
- 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-116.
Text on the object
MEMBER OF UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION Food will win the war your pledge to the United States Food Administration is a pledge to back our soldiers and the Allies eat less bread-save wheat
