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title: Your community can sponsor a school lunch program for its children
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/make-america-strong-school-lunch-1941/
description: Photograph of a line of schoolchildren, the girl in front holding a plate of food, under a headline asking the community to sponsor a school lunch program.
section: Collection
---

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[![Your community can sponsor a school lunch program for its children, 1941 US poster: Photograph of a line of schoolchildren](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/make-america-strong-school-lunch-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/make-america-strong-school-lunch-1941.jpg)

# Your community can sponsor a school lunch program for its children

Photograph of a line of schoolchildren, the girl in front holding a plate of food, under a headline asking the community to sponsor a school lunch program. The technique is plain-folks: ordinary children and a plain meal; the fear-appeal is faint or absent. Poster No. 10 of 13.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
YOUR COMMUNITY
can sponsor a school lunch
program for its children
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941-O-292318
Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . . . . . Poster No. 10
```

[← Your community can work for low-cost ways of selling needed foods](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/make-america-strong-low-cost-foods-1941/) [Make every minute count - we have no time to lose! Don't slow up the ship! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/make-every-minute-count-navy-1941/)

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