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What can you do? Join our Red Cross Membership including Red Cross magazine $2.00 : No field service required. – Vintage Print

What can you do? Join our Red Cross Membership including Red Cross magazine $2.00 : No field service required., [1919] — vintage poster
What can you do? Join our Red Cross Membership including Red Cross magazine $2.00 : No field service required., [1919]. Vintage poster from the Military 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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What can you do? Join our Red Cross Membership including Red Cross magazine $2.00 : No field service required. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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What can you do? Join our Red Cross Membership including Red Cross magazine $2.00 : No field service required.

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The headline, "What can you do?", speaks to civilians who could not serve overseas. The answer is membership in the American Red Cross for two dollars, which included a subscription to the organization's magazine, and the poster notes that no field service was required. Printed in 1919, after the armistice ended fighting in Europe, it reflects the Red Cross's effort to keep its wartime membership base as the group turned toward health work at home, including nursing and public health. The bright chromolithograph color was typical of the period's posters, which were meant to catch the eye of passersby.

Created / published[1919]
Medium1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 107 x 70 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920.
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects--United States. Nurses--American--1910-1920. Health care--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,737 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221196

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