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American Red Cross health center Your membership helps to put a health center in your town. – Antique Print

American Red Cross health center Your membership helps to put a health center in your town., [1919] — vintage poster
American Red Cross health center Your membership helps to put a health center in your town., [1919]. 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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A window into the past: American Red Cross health center Your membership helps to put a health center in your town., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few wartime posters asked for money to build something at home in peacetime, but this 1919 American Red Cross call does exactly that, linking a membership fee to a health center in the reader's own town. Issued as number 8 in a series, it appeared as the country demobilized and the Red Cross was turning its wartime relief network toward public health work such as nursing, sanitation and disease prevention. Its appeal to local pride reflects the organization's postwar shift, when membership drives aimed to keep volunteers and donors engaged after the armistice.

Created / published[1919]
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 97 x 63 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920.
NotesNo. 8.
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. Health care--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,752 × 4,667 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221193

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