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Our boys need sox - knit your bit American Red Cross. – Historic Reproduction

Our boys need sox - knit your bit American Red Cross., N.Y. : American Lithographic Co., [between 1914 and 1918] — vintage poster
Our boys need sox - knit your bit American Red Cross., N.Y. : American Lithographic Co., [between 1914 and 1918]. 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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Our boys need sox - knit your bit American Red Cross. 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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Few posters of the First World War asked Americans to do something as domestic as knitting, and this lithograph makes that request in its title: "Our boys need sox, knit your bit." Issued by the American Red Cross and printed in New York by the American Lithographic Company sometime between 1914 and 1918, it belongs to the wartime drive that turned knitting circles, church groups and parlors into small volunteer workshops. Socks were among the most urgently needed items for American soldiers in Europe, and the poster treats a simple pair of wool stockings as a personal contribution to the war effort.

Created / publishedN.Y. : American Lithographic Co., [between 1914 and 1918]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Offset lithographs Color 1910-1920.
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Knitting--1910-1920. Yarn--1910-1920. War work--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,762 × 4,677 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221243

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