Will you help? The Red Cross counts on you / Woodward, St. Louis. – Historic Print
![Will you help? The Red Cross counts on you / Woodward, St. Louis., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/28/287501539b33-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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Will you help? The Red Cross counts on you / Woodward, St. Louis. 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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Will you help? The Red Cross counts on you / Woodward, St. Louis.
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Its title poses a question directly to the viewer, "Will you help?", and the poster answers it on behalf of the American Red Cross. Dated 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it was printed in St. Louis under the name Woodward. The subject headings in its record tie the Red Cross to medical aid, destruction in Europe, and the war funds that paid for relief work overseas. Posters like this one were a major way to reach civilian donors who had no direct view of the fighting.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 102 x 71 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Destruction & pillage--Europe. War damage--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,590 × 4,452 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222232 |
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