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title: Your community can use many ways to teach family food needs
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-community-teach-family-food-needs-1941/
description: 'Make America Strong set, poster 11: a photograph of two women and a toddler at a table of milk bottles, cans, vegetables and bread.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Your community can use many ways to teach family food needs, 1941 US poster: Make America Strong set, poster 11](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-community-teach-family-food-needs-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-community-teach-family-food-needs-1941.jpg)

# Your community can use many ways to teach family food needs

Make America Strong set, poster 11: a photograph of two women and a toddler at a table of milk bottles, cans, vegetables and bread, with a wall sign headed 'Food for family of four for one week'. The headline invites the community to teach family food needs. Ordinary mothers shown in a plain setting give a plain-folks look; the technique is faint here.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
YOUR COMMUNITY
can use many ways
to teach family food needs
[sign on wall in photograph:] FOOD FOR FAMILY OF FOUR
FOR ONE WEEK
MAN
EXPECTANT MOTHER
TWO PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
HOW MUCH FOOD SHOULD YOUR FAMILY HAVE
LET US HELP YOU
MAKE A LOW COST MARKET LIST
FOR YOUR FAMILY
[labels on goods in photograph:] MILK; DRIED BE[ANS]; TOMAT[O]
[imprint:] Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . . . . . Poster No. 11
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941—O-292318
```

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