Join the Red Cross and on Christmas eve a candle in every window, a service flag for every home / LN Britton. – Antique Print
![Join the Red Cross and on Christmas eve a candle in every window, a service flag for every home / LN Britton., [1917 or 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c0/c07b8a20e8a9-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: Join the Red Cross and on Christmas eve a candle in every window, a service flag for every home / LN Britton., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Join the Red Cross and on Christmas eve a candle in every window, a service flag for every home / LN Britton.
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This Christmas poster ties a window candle to the blue-star service flag that hung in homes where a family member was serving in the First World War. Credited to L.N. Britton, it dates to 1917 or 1918, when the American Red Cross was running large membership drives during the war. The poster asks households to join as a holiday act, linking the season to the organization's nursing, relief, and supply work. Its color halftone printing was a relatively inexpensive way to reproduce posters in quantity at the time.
| Created / published | [1917 or 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Christmas--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,681 × 3,766 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 118_Join_the_Red_Cross_and_1917 |
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