While someone gives his life, what are you giving? Think a minute All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief. – Vintage Print
![While someone gives his life, what are you giving? Think a minute All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d3/d3b63e5c79ce-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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Step back in time with While someone gives his life, what are you giving? Think a minute All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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While someone gives his life, what are you giving? Think a minute All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief.
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The headline asks what you are giving while someone gives his life, and the text promises that all of the Red Cross War Fund goes to war relief. Issued in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, the poster belongs to the Red Cross's wartime fundraising drives, which asked ordinary Americans to support medical supplies, nursing, and aid for soldiers and civilians overseas. Rather than showing heroic combat, it makes a direct, guilt-tinged appeal that tied private giving to the sacrifice at the front. Its medical focus reflects how central the Red Cross was to the home front.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 69 x 52 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Form N Y 3 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,590 × 4,462 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221830 |
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