These build strength: meals that are ample, well prepared, rich in protective foods
Make America Strong set, poster 6: a photograph of a family of five seated at a table with milk, meat, vegetables and dessert, set under the headline 'These build strength' and three lines naming ample, well prepared meals rich in protective foods. It is the positive half of a pair with poster 5. The strength wording is a virtue-word claim (glittering generalities) over a plain-folks scene.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (Make America Strong poster set; issuing agency not named on sheet), printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Government Printing Office. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1313G (NAID 514946).
Text on the object
THESE BUILD STRENGTH meals that are ample meals well prepared meals rich in protective foods [imprint:] Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . . . . . Poster No. 6 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941—O-292318
