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title: They Are Giving All. Will You Send Them Wheat?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/they-are-giving-all-will-you-send-them-wheat-1918/
description: Helmeted US infantrymen with fixed bayonets charge across a snow-white ridge above a two-line headline in red capitals.
section: Collection
---

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[![They Are Giving All. Will You Send Them Wheat?, 1918 US poster: Helmeted US infantrymen with fixed bayonets charge across](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/they-are-giving-all-will-you-send-them-wheat-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/they-are-giving-all-will-you-send-them-wheat-1918.jpg)

# They Are Giving All. Will You Send Them Wheat?

Helmeted US infantrymen with fixed bayonets charge across a snow-white ridge above a two-line headline in red capitals. The soldiers' sacrifice is set directly against a request for wheat, so the viewer's feeling for the troops is attached to a household food choice; the question form leaves one answer open.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THEY ARE GIVING ALL
WILL YOU SEND THEM WHEAT?
U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION

[small print, lower left: DESIGNED FOR THE U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION BY THE DIVISION OF PICTORIAL PUBLICITY; a short code beneath is illegible]
[small print, lower right: apparently THE W.F. POWERS CO. LITHO. ...; remainder illegible]
```

The two imprint lines in the lower corners are very small and blurred; the lower-left line is read with reasonable confidence, the lower-right line only in part. The artist's signature at the left of the painted scene is illegible.

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