Your Bit Saves a Life: 2 1/2 Million Women and Children Now Starving to Death
A hooded woman holds a young child, both with worried faces, under the claim that two and a half million women and children are starving to death. The closing line, 'You can't let us starve,' speaks in the victims' voice, and a Pittsburgh campaign address is printed at the foot. The tell is the close portrait paired with a large, unsourced casualty figure and a direct demand on the viewer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Armenian and Syrian Relief Campaign (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- 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
Armenian and Syrian Relief Campaign. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-302.
Text on the object
YOUR BIT SAVES A LIFE 2½ Million Women and Children Now Starving to Death You Can't Let Us Starve Armenian and Syrian Relief Campaign 508 Wm. Penn Place (Union Arcade) PITTSBURGH, PA.
