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
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Food Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S. Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-3.
Text on the object
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.
