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If you knew a day's pay would save a life, would you give one day a month? All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief. – Vintage Wall Art

If you knew a day's pay would save a life, would you give one day a month? All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief., [1917] — vintage poster
If you knew a day's pay would save a life, would you give one day a month? All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief., [1917]. Vintage poster from the Military collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The headline asks viewers to consider giving one day's pay each month, with the promise that every dollar of the Red Cross War Fund would go to war relief. This poster is one of the Second War Fund appeals the American Red Cross issued in 1917, after the United States entered the First World War that April. The organization had to raise money quickly for medical supplies, nursing, and aid to soldiers and civilians overseas, and posters like this one carried that message into shop windows, post offices, and workplaces. Its subject line, which ties a day's wages to a human life, reflects how the wartime drives asked ordinary workers to share in the effort.

Created / published[1917]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 69 x 52 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920.
NotesForm N Y 2 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,595 × 4,462 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221832

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