Is there a Red Cross service flag in your home? A heart and a dollar are all you need - Join the Red Cross / EH [monogram]. – Antique Print
![Is there a Red Cross service flag in your home? A heart and a dollar are all you need - Join the Red Cross / EH [monogram]., 1917 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/85/85f5c6a4c337-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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A window into the past: Is there a Red Cross service flag in your home? A heart and a dollar are all you need - Join the Red Cross / EH [monogram]., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Is there a Red Cross service flag in your home? A heart and a dollar are all you need - Join the Red Cross / EH [monogram].
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This poster opens with a pointed question: is there a Red Cross service flag in your home? Its answer is that a heart and a dollar are all it takes to join. The service flag, a white banner with a red border and a blue star for each family member in uniform, was a familiar sight in American windows during the First World War, and the poster links that emotional symbol to Red Cross membership. Printed in New York in 1917, the year the United States entered the war, it reflects the effort to recruit ordinary citizens as donors and volunteers.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 88 x 136 cm. |
| Notes | Copyright Wells Fargo Company. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,007 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 115_Is_there_a_Red_Cross_se_1917 |
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