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title: 'Food Will Win the War: You Came Here Seeking Freedom, Wheat Is Needed for the Allies'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/food-will-win-the-war-wheat-is-needed-for-the-allies-1917/
description: Immigrants crowd the rail of an incoming ship, looking toward the Statue of Liberty and a New York skyline under rainbow bands of colour.
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# Food Will Win the War: You Came Here Seeking Freedom, Wheat Is Needed for the Allies

Immigrants crowd the rail of an incoming ship, looking toward the Statue of Liberty and a New York skyline under rainbow bands of colour. The text reads 'You came here seeking Freedom. You must now help to preserve it. Wheat is needed for the allies. Waste nothing.' The tell of transfer is the arrival scene: the viewer's memory of reaching America is attached to a request about conserving wheat.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR

You came here seeking Freedom
You must now help to preserve it

WHEAT is needed for the allies
Waste nothing

[seal: United States Food Administration]

UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION

No 18

RUSLING WOOD, LITHO. N.Y.

[artist's signature: Chambers]
```

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