Fruit and Vegetable Packs
Six sealed glass jars, each labelled in a framed panel (peaches, blackberries, cherries, okra, string beans, soup mixture), fill a sheet that carries no slogan or direct appeal. The only persuasion is the display of ordinary home-preserved food under a federal extension-service imprint, with 4-H clover emblems in the lower corners.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, States Relations Service (Home Demonstration Work)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- 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. Department of Agriculture, States Relations Service (Home Demonstration Work). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-104.
Text on the object
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PACKS 4H BRAND PEACHES BLACKBERRIES CHERRIES OKRA STRING BEANS SOUP MIXTURE Home Demonstration Work STATES RELATIONS SERVICE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WASHINGTON, D.C. [lithographer's imprint, lower right, very small, first initial uncertain: ?. GAMSE & BRO. LITH. BALTO., MD.]
'4H BRAND' is a small emblem below the title; the two four-leaf-clover emblems at the lower corners carry an 'H' on each leaf and no text beyond that.
