Hold up your end! War fund week - one hundred million dollars / W. B. King. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Hold up your end! War fund week - one hundred million dollars / W. B. King.
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Hold up your end!" urges this 1917 color lithograph, a call to meet a one-hundred-million-dollar goal during War Fund Week. The American Red Cross ran the drive in the months after the United States entered the First World War that spring, and the poster's subjects include nurses, pointing to the medical work the money was meant to support. The design is credited to W. B. King, and its blunt slogan shows how wartime fundraising asked ordinary citizens to share the burden with those serving overseas. It is worth noticing how the poster treats giving as a personal duty rather than a charitable option.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 70 x 52 cm. |
| Notes | Form N.Y. 18 Second War Fund. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Nurses--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,796 × 4,716 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 108_Hold_up_your_end_War_fu_1917 |
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