Our greatest mother - join! / Cornelius Hicks American Lithographic Co. Inc. N.Y. U.S.A. – Vintage Poster
(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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Our greatest mother - join! / Cornelius Hicks American Lithographic Co. Inc. N.Y. U.S.A. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Our greatest mother - join! / Cornelius Hicks American Lithographic Co. Inc. N.Y. U.S.A.
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Few wartime posters drew on scripture as directly as this one, which brings the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation into an appeal to join the American Red Cross. Printed in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it belongs to a wave of recruiting posters as the organization's membership grew and its nursing and relief work expanded. The lithograph was produced by Cornelius Hicks of the American Lithographic Company in New York, and its attention to nurses reflects how central trained women were to the Red Cross effort.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Notes | Litho in U.S.A. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--1910-1920. Nurses--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 716 × 892 px |
| Reference | 115_Our_greatest_mother_jo_1917.tif-S |
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