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A Red Cross nurse – Historic Reproduction

A Red Cross nurse, c1899. — historic print
A Red Cross nurse, c1899.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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: A Red Cross nurse, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Dressed in the uniform of a Red Cross nurse, this color reproduction of a watercolor by illustrator Maud Humphrey was made around 1899, several years before the United States entered World War I. The subject is a child-oriented sentimental scene rather than a battlefield, and the catalog tags it under "Children." Humphrey was known for such pictures, and the publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company held the copyright. The Red Cross emblem reflects the organization's growing public visibility after its American founding in 1881. The date and attribution come from an unverified caption card, so treat them as provisional.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 print.
NotesColor repro. of watercolor by Maud Humphrey, copyrighted by Frederick A. Stokes Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children; Red Cross; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,263 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155773

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