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"Do Your Bit--Save the Pit"
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Poster featuring a drawing of a woman scraping pits from fruit into a barrel.Text reads "Stop. Save Prune pits Plum pits Cherry pits Date seeds Olive pits Peach Stones Apricot pits the shells of Hickory nuts Butternuts and Walnuts. The carbon produced from these materials when placed in respirators will Save Soldiers' Lives by absorbing German Poison Gas Dry materials thoroughly and deliver to points designated by The American Red Cross Do Your Bit - Save the Pit"
1917
United States. Army. Gas Defense Division. Chemical Warfare Service.
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Motherless, Fatherless, Starving
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circa 1950-1970
Die-cut poster intended to promote cherries, showing a color image of a bunch of cherries on a branch with leaves.
Give More to the Red Cross
1918
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Join American Red Cross Poster
1917
World War I poster depicting a young nurse extending out her right hand. In the background, wolves are approaching the front porch of a house, and howling in front of a full moon. The poster reads:...
All-Campus Blood Drive Poster
March 1971
Poster announcing a blood drive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sponsored by the Red Cross. Features a "bloodmobile" as an attraction.
American Red Cross Recruiting Poster
circa 1940-1949
World War II-era recruiting poster for the American Red Cross showing an armed U.S. soldier in a trench smiling and holding a cup of coffee. A male and a female member of the American Red Cross app...
