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Poster

The Health Of The Child Is The Power Of The Nation

Date: 1918
Description: A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C...
Photograph

North Vietnamese Children

Date: 12 12 1965
Description: Nurse caring for two North Vietnamese children who were wounded by U.S. bombing. This official North Vietnamese photograph was released about June 1, 1966,...
Poster

Wanted: 25,000 Student Nurses

Date: 
Description: Poster recruiting student nurses to aid in the war effort. Depicts a young woman, in a nurse's uniform, with her right hand raised to her heart. Behind her...
Poster

The Red Cross War Fund Poster

Date: 1914
Description: "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl...
Poster

Dr. Uncle Sam

Date: 1918
Description: Poster including a cartoon illustration of Uncle Sam pouring medicine into a spoon for two bed-ridden patients, the "Wage Earner" and the "Wage Payer." The...
Poster

The Disabled Man Can Win

Date: 1918
Description: A man in a military uniform is covering his mouth with one hand and holding a crutch with the other. Poster text reads: "The disabled man can win. Your loc...
Poster

Are You

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a Red Cross insignia in the top center. Text reads: "Are You — a graduate nurse, undergraduate nurse, practical nurse, hospital attendant,...
Poster

For All Humanity

Date: 1918
Description: Posters featuring a photograph of a female nurse looking out of a window. Two empty hospital beds with white covers and a chair is in the room behind her. ...
Poster

Third Red Cross Roll Call

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a female nurse in a white uniform with a Red Cross logo on her dress and her hat. She is also wearing a long white veil...
Poster

Still the Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicting four people. The woman is monumental, with a billowing dress and a Red Cross hat. She is holding a boy with a crutch in her left arm. Her ...
Poster

Red Cross Christmas roll call December 16th to 23rd

Date: 1918
Description: Poster showing a figure of Columbia holding a pen and adorned with a flag and sword, and a Red Cross nurse with a scroll, inscribed "Where Columbia sets he...
Poster

Have you answered the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a Red Cross nurse with a blue and red coat over her shoulders. She is extending her hand, as soldiers are marching in the background with ...
Poster

If you can't go across with a gun, come across with your part of the Red Cross war fund

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicts wounded man in a sling gesturing to a red cross sign. Woman with a scarf on her head and small boy also shown. Broken wagon wheel, gun with ...
Poster

Eight Million Patriotic Red Cross Workers Have Made 291,004,000 Necessary Articles For War Purposes

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman wearing a hat with the Red Cross insignia on it. Details are about the contributions that women have made towar...
Poster

Pour le triomphe souscrivez à l'emprunt national

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of troops of World War I soldiers marching through the Arc de Triomphe. Soldiers from previous wars are marching down on a clou...
Poster

Warning! Consider The Possible Consequences If You Are Careless In Your Work

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting an elevated view of a downed plane tail up and floating in the sea with survivors standing on top of it. A seaplane i...
Poster

Verdun, Road to Y.M.C.A. Canteen

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a road with a view through an archway towards a town, with rubble in the foreground on the left. There are pedestrians and a...

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