[blank] enrolls for national service Members. – Historic Print
![[blank] enrolls for national service Members., [1919] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2c/2caa736c7405-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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A window into the past: [blank] enrolls for national service Members., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[blank] enrolls for national service Members.
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What sets this poster apart is its blank line, where each school was meant to hand-letter its own name above the word "Members." The printed instructions tell teachers to display it at a Lincoln's Birthday program and keep it up through the enrollment period, which ended on Washington's Birthday, when pupils pasted paper figures showing how many classmates had joined. The poster belongs to the American Red Cross's school drive of 1919, a few months after the end of World War I. Its patriotic flag and call to "national service" reflect how the Red Cross used schools to recruit young members for wartime and postwar relief work.
| 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 | 1,500 × 2,178 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173851 |
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