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 Transfer

Date: 1918
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: Persuade or win support
Themes: Home front, Media and information
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-83.

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.