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title: Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/will-you-help-the-women-of-france-save-wheat-1917/
description: Three French women in headscarves haul a wooden plough over stony ground by chains, drawn against a dark field with the Food Administration seal.
section: Collection
---

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[![Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat, 1917 US poster: Three French women in headscarves haul a wooden plough over](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/will-you-help-the-women-of-france-save-wheat-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/will-you-help-the-women-of-france-save-wheat-1917.jpg)

# Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat

Three French women in headscarves haul a wooden plough over stony ground by chains, drawn against a dark field with the Food Administration seal. The headline asks the viewer a direct question and the caption says they are struggling against starvation while their husbands and sons fight in the trenches. The tell of transfer is the borrowed image of allied women's labour, attached to an action, saving wheat, that the viewer performs at their own table.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Will you help the Women of France?

SAVE
WHEAT

They are struggling against starvation and trying to feed not only themselves and children: but their husbands and sons who are fighting in the trenches.

UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION

EDWARD PENFIELD
```

The imprint line and the artist's signature are small; 'EDWARD PENFIELD' is the signature at lower left.

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