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Poster

All They Ask Is Your Old Clothes

Date: 1918
Description: Poster shows two open hands in front of the burning remains of a city across the water. Text reads "All They Ask Is Your Old Clothes. Send everything you c...
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

Give More to the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Poster has red cross logo in all four corners. Text reads "Give more to the Red Cross. The boys who risk their lives to protect you, need the protection yo...
Poster

Make Good The Promise. One Hundred Million Dollars

Date: 1918
Description: "Make good the promise" is across the top of the poster with the Red Cross insignia between "good" and "promise."
The poster reads: make good the promi...
Poster

The First Three!

Date: 1918
Description: The top half of the poster has the American flag in the background. On top of the flag there three faces of men in uniform. Left to right the names read Ha...
Poster

Motherless, Fatherless, Starving

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman wearing clothing with the Red Cross insignia on it. She is standing in the middle of a crowd of children. Anoth...
Photograph

Advanced Dressing Station

Date: 09 01 1918
Description: Soldiers adorning the grave of a fallen comrade at the advanced dressing station, the farthest point to which ambulances would travel. A sign on an ambulan...
Poster

The Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a monumental woman cradling a wounded man. She is wearing a Red Cross hat, and the Red Cross insignia behind her on the...
Poster

Caring For American Soldiers in England

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man in a uniform walking on the left side. Behind him is the Red Cross insignia is in the top left side of the poster...
Poster

The Queen of Belgium Appealed to the Red Cross to Aid in Saving the Children

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman and two children standing together. The woman is wearing a Red Cross hat. There Red Cross insignia is in the up...
Poster

The Red Cross Supplies 30,000 People Each Week with Information

Date: 1918
Description: The Red Cross insignia is in the bottom center of the poster. Text at the top reads: "The Red Cross Supplies 30,000 People Each Week With Information Conce...
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

Journee du Poilu. Organisée par le Parlement

Date: 1915
Description: Poster depicting a young boy and girl. The girl is wearing a red cross uniform and is carrying a collection cup. The boy has a soldier-like outfit with a c...
Photograph

Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 01 07 1954
Description: Red Cross blood drive at the Wisconsin Telephone Company. Nurses are attending to employees, who are volunteering to donate blood.
Photograph

Germans Released From French POW Camps

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Description: German Red Cross officers and men who had been released from French PoW camps in conformance with Geneva Convention rules.
Photograph

Released German PoWs

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Description: German Red Cross officers and men who had been released from French PoW camps in conformance with Geneva Convention rules.

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