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title: 'Food Will Win the War: Official Pictures of the United States Food Administration Are Shown at This Theatre'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/food-will-win-the-war-official-pictures-theatre-1918/
description: An eagle with spread wings perches on a wreathed US shield between two draped flags, under the slogan 'Food will win the war'.
section: Collection
---

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# Food Will Win the War: Official Pictures of the United States Food Administration Are Shown at This Theatre

An eagle with spread wings perches on a wreathed US shield between two draped flags, under the slogan 'Food will win the war'. The text announces that official Food Administration pictures are shown at the theatre, so the poster is a cinema-lobby notice. The tell is the stack of national symbols (eagle, flags, shield, wreath) lent to a short slogan that carries no specific claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
food will win the war

Official Pictures
of the United States
Food Administration
are shown at this
THEATRE

[spaced letters along the bottom edge, apparently: I L L I A N]
THE W.F. POWERS CO. LITHO., N.Y.
```

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