The health of the child is the power of the nation Children's year, April 1918 - April 1919 / F. Luis Mora. – Antique Print
![The health of the child is the power of the nation Children's year, April 1918 - April 1919 / F. Luis Mora., N[ew] Y[ork] : The W. F. Powers Co., Litho., 1918. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ea/ea30bcb3e97e-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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The health of the child is the power of the nation Children's year, April 1918 - April 1919 / F. Luis Mora. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The health of the child is the power of the nation Children's year, April 1918 - April 1919 / F. Luis Mora.
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The poster's slogan, "The health of the child is the power of the nation," states its argument in a single line, and it was printed in 1918 for the Children's Year campaign that ran from April 1918 to April 1919. The United States Children's Bureau led that effort, working with the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense and the Committee on Public Information's pictorial publicity division to reduce infant and child mortality during the First World War. The artist, F. Luis Mora, a Uruguayan-born American portrait painter, gave the campaign an image that links the nation's future to the well-being of its children.
| Created / published | N[ew] Y[ork] : The W. F. Powers Co., Litho., 1918. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 50 x 76 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United States Children's Bureau and Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. Committee on Public Information, Division of Pictorial Publicity. |
| Subjects | United States.--Children's Bureau. World War, 1914-1918--Children--United States. Children--Health & welfare--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,076 × 2,671 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223172 |
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