They fight for you - protect them Help the Red Cross raise $100,000,000 at once / W.G. Sesser. – Antique Wall Art
![They fight for you - protect them Help the Red Cross raise $100,000,000 at once / W.G. Sesser., [N.Y.] : Latham Litho & Printing Co., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5a/5ab6e969f368-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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They fight for you - protect them Help the Red Cross raise $100,000,000 at once / W.G. Sesser. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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They fight for you - protect them Help the Red Cross raise $100,000,000 at once / W.G. Sesser.
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This 1917 color lithograph pairs the Statue of Liberty with a direct appeal for money, asking Americans to help the Red Cross raise $100,000,000 at once. It was printed the same year the United States entered the First World War, when the country was expanding its army and the Red Cross was preparing large national fund drives for troops at home and abroad. The slogan "They fight for you, protect them" presents giving as a duty owed to soldiers, and the Statue of Liberty gives the appeal a patriotic symbol that ordinary households would recognize. Posters like this one were a major way wartime campaigns reached the public.
| Created / published | [N.Y.] : Latham Litho & Printing Co., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 56 x 36 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects--United States. Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. Soldiers--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,796 × 4,730 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221526 |
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