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Every life saved by efficient medical aid is a blow struck at the heart of the enemy. Strike a blow to-day by helping the Canadian Red Cross – Historic Print

Every life saved by efficient medical aid is a blow struck at the heart of the enemy. Strike a blow to-day by helping the Canadian Red Cross — vintage poster
Every life saved by efficient medical aid is a blow struck at the heart of the enemy. Strike a blow to-day by helping the Canadian Red Cross. Vintage poster 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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The poster's central claim is that saving a life through prompt medical care "is a blow struck at the heart of the enemy," so a donation to the Canadian Red Cross becomes a form of war effort. Printed in 1915, when Canada had committed large numbers of troops to the Western Front, it appealed to civilians at home to fund hospital supplies, ambulance work and other relief for the wounded. Posters like this one were a common tool of wartime fundraising, which ties the image to the broader question of how nations financed their war efforts beyond the battlefield.

Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 63 x 46 cm.
Notes[S.l. : s.n., 1915]
SubjectsCanadian Red Cross Society--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Canada. War bonds & funds--Canada--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,079 × 6,305 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-225847

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