---
title: 'Heroic Women of France Toiling to Produce Food: Are You Doing Your Part?'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heroic-women-of-france-toiling-to-produce-food-1918-512589/
description: A photograph shows women in long skirts hauling a plough by chain across a field, under the headline 'Heroic Women of France'.
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Heroic Women of France Toiling to Produce Food: Are You Doing Your

[![Heroic Women of France Toiling to Produce Food: Are You Doing Your Part?, 1918 US poster: A photograph shows women in long](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/heroic-women-of-france-toiling-to-produce-food-1918-512589.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/heroic-women-of-france-toiling-to-produce-food-1918-512589.jpg)

# Heroic Women of France Toiling to Produce Food: Are You Doing Your Part?

A photograph shows women in long skirts hauling a plough by chain across a field, under the headline 'Heroic Women of France'. Three quoted statements from Alonzo Taylor, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson tie American food saving to their labour, and the closing question 'Are you doing your part?' puts the ask to the reader.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Heroic Women
of France
toiling to produce food

"Does it lie within the heart of the American people to hold to every convenience of our life and thus add an additional burden to the women of France?"
—Alonzo Taylor

"If we produce all we can, if we eat no more than our health demands, and if we waste nothing we will greatly lighten the load these noble women are carrying."
—Herbert Hoover

"It means (food conservation) the utmost economy, even to the point where the pinch comes. It means the kind of concentration and self-sacrifice which is involved in the field of battle itself, where the object always looms greater than the individual."
—Woodrow Wilson

Are you doing your part?

UNITED STATES
FOOD ADMINISTRATION

WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO., NEW YORK

[seal: United States Food Administration]
```

[← Heroic Women of France Toiling to Produce Food: Are You Doing Your Part?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heroic-women-of-france-toiling-to-produce-food-1918/) [Hun - His Mark. Blot It Out with Liberty Bonds →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hun-his-mark-blot-it-out-with-liberty-bonds-1918/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account.
- [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking)
- [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial)
- [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer)
- [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities)
- [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial)
- [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial)
- [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)