[blank] enrolls for national service Members. – Antique Print
![[blank] enrolls for national service Members., [1919] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0b/0b73ac9e4aa5-L.webp)
(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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This rare vintage poster captures [blank] enrolls for national service Members. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Unlike most posters in this group, this one leaves a blank at the top for a school's name, and its printed instructions tell teachers to have pupils letter that name in by hand. The poster was built for a school-based enrollment drive, with the tally of enrolled children pasted in during a Washington's Birthday ceremony. It dates from 1919, when the American Red Cross was recruiting young members through schools. The Junior Red Cross had begun in American classrooms during World War I, and the poster turns that membership into a patriotic classroom ritual.
| Created / published | [1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Caption reads: Instructions for Use. To the Principal or Teacher: Have the school children draw in the name of the school at the top of the poster after careful lettering under your direction. Exhibit the poster at the Lincoln's Birthday Exercise, and hang it in a prominent place during the enrollment period which ends on Washington's Birthday. At Washington's Birthday Exercise let some of the children, as part of the ceremony, paste in figures representing the number of children enrolled above the word Members. |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Flags--American--1910-1920. School children--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,786 × 4,701 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221252 |
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