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Our greatest mother - join! / Cornelius Hicks American Lithographic Co. Inc. N.Y. U.S.A. – Vintage Wall Art

Our greatest mother - join! / Cornelius Hicks American Lithographic Co. Inc. N.Y. U.S.A., 1917 — vintage poster
Our greatest mother - join! / Cornelius Hicks American Lithographic Co. Inc. N.Y. U.S.A., 1917. Vintage poster from the World War I 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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This rare vintage poster captures Our greatest mother - join! / Cornelius Hicks American Lithographic Co. Inc. N.Y. U.S.A. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Our greatest mother - join! / Cornelius Hicks American Lithographic Co. Inc. N.Y. U.S.A.

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Here the American Red Cross is presented as a mother, and the title, "Our greatest mother - join!", makes the appeal direct: Americans were asked to enroll. The subject headings also name the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and nurses, pairing the horror of war with the care that relief work provided. Issued by the American Lithographic Co. of New York in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it belongs to a wave of recruiting posters that accompanied the Red Cross's rapid growth in membership and volunteer service. Color lithography allowed such images to be reproduced quickly and in large numbers.

Created / published1917
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 76 x 51 cm.
NotesLitho in U.S.A. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--1910-1920. Nurses--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters
Original scan3,806 × 4,745 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference129_Our_greatest_mother_jo_1917

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