This Store Sells at Fair Prices as Interpreted by U.S. Food Administration (Arkansas Card)
A landscape window card headed 'This Store Sells at Fair Prices' tells shoppers to deal only with merchants displaying it and to report higher prices to the Federal Food Administrator for Arkansas. A boxed space is left for a newspaper clipping of the official list, and the card is void unless the week's list is posted. The tell is the official seal and membership wording lent to a store, while the shopper is enlisted as the enforcement mechanism.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Food Administration (Arkansas)
- 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, Economy and finance
- 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 (Arkansas). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-277.
Text on the object
THIS STORE SELLS AT FAIR PRICES AS INTERPRETED BY U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION For your own protection deal with merchants displaying this Card in their Windows, and whose Prices on STAPLE ARTICLES do NOT EXCEED those authorized by the U. S. Food Administration, which prices should be shown in the form of a newspaper clipping. Lower prices may be charged but buyers should report any sales or quotations at higher figures to HAMP WILLIAMS, Federal Food Administrator for Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark. Card No. 823 Issued to ________ Date ________ In the space at the right should appear current prices authorized by the Federal Food Administration for this County and should be in the form of a clipping from a newspaper published in this County. THIS CARD IS VOID UNLESS THIS WEEK'S LIST IS SO POSTED. THE ABOVE STORE IS A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION. OFFICIAL FAIR PRICE LIST PASTE CLIPPING FROM NEWSPAPER HERE The Official Price List Will be Found each ________ [Day of Week] in the Following Newspapers:
