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title: 'Read the Official Bulletin: War Information, Ask for It Here'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/read-the-official-bulletin-war-information-1917/
description: A text poster under the national eagle advertises the daily Official Bulletin and lists the departments and boards.
section: Collection
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# Read the Official Bulletin: War Information, Ask for It Here

A text poster under the national eagle advertises the daily Official Bulletin and lists the departments and boards, from the Army and Navy to the Food Administration, about which readers may seek information. It tells the public to 'Ask for it here'. The tell is the framing of one government-published daily as the authoritative source on all wartime governmental business.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Read the
Official Bulletin

PUBLISHED DAILY UNDER
ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES

BY COMMITTEE ON
PUBLIC INFORMATION
GEORGE CREEL CHAIRMAN

WAR
Information

Save writing to Washington for what you
want to know about

The Army and Navy
The Red Cross
The Selective Draft Laws
The Food Administration
The Railroad Administration
The Fuel Administration
Trading with the enemy
The War Labor Board
The War Industries Board

and all the other permanent or emergency governmental departments, boards, commissions, committees and administrations at the Capital and elsewhere.

ASK FOR IT HERE

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [number illegible]
Ray Greenleaf
```

The Government Printing Office line at lower left is in very small type and its number is not legible. The artist's signature at lower right reads Ray Greenleaf, beside a small boxed monogram.

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