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What are you doing to help? Join your American Red Cross / Gordon Grant. – Vintage Wall Art

What are you doing to help? Join your American Red Cross / Gordon Grant., 1917 — vintage poster
What are you doing to help? Join your American Red Cross / Gordon Grant., 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 What are you doing to help? Join your American Red Cross / Gordon Grant. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Its direct question, "What are you doing to help?", sets this 1917 poster apart from many wartime appeals that simply asked for money. The United States had entered the First World War that spring, and the American Red Cross was taking on nursing, medical care, and fundraising through war bonds and donations. Gordon Grant's color lithograph links those home-front tasks to the nursing and medical work the poster addresses, asking each viewer to find a personal role in the effort. Posters like this were a central tool in the mass campaigns that drew civilians into the war effort.

Created / published1917
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 93 x 63 cm.
NotesTitle from item. · MacKaye Percy 1875-1956.
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Nurses--1910-1920. Medical aspects of war--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters
Original scan3,797 × 4,760 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference153_What_are_you_doing_to_h_1917

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