Join [Red Cross symbol] - Americas answer to humanitys challenge / Hayden Hayden Snyder Black Inc. N.Y. – Vintage Wall Art
![Join [Red Cross symbol] - Americas answer to humanitys challenge / Hayden Hayden Snyder Black Inc. N.Y., 1917 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/78/7816c93958c4-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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Join [Red Cross symbol] - Americas answer to humanitys challenge / Hayden Hayden Snyder Black Inc. N.Y. 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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Join [Red Cross symbol] - Americas answer to humanitys challenge / Hayden Hayden Snyder Black Inc. N.Y.
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Its title, "America's answer to humanity's challenge," sits beside the Red Cross emblem and presents joining the organization as a national duty. Printed in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it belongs to a wave of recruiting art that asked Americans to volunteer with the American Red Cross, which grew rapidly during the war. Its color lithograph format made it practical to print in quantity for public display. The subject headings also list nurses, which reflects the strong emphasis on women's service at home and abroad.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Notes | Litho. in U.S.A. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Nurses--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,792 × 4,760 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 119_Join_Red_Cross_symbol_1917 |
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