Five thousand by June Graduate nurses your country needs you / C. Rakeman. – Antique Print
![Five thousand by June Graduate nurses your country needs you / C. Rakeman., New York : Rand McNally & Co., [1917?] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ee/ee53be947568-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: Five thousand by June Graduate nurses your country needs you / C. Rakeman., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Five thousand by June Graduate nurses your country needs you / C. Rakeman.
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The headline sets a concrete goal: five thousand graduate nurses by June, with the deadline printed right in the title. Published in New York by Rand McNally & Co., the poster appeals to trained nurses to enlist with the American Red Cross as the United States prepared for and entered World War I in 1917. Recruiting was urgent because military hospitals at home and overseas needed large numbers of trained nurses, and the direct appeal "your country needs you" echoes the patriotic language common to wartime posters of the period.
| Created / published | New York : Rand McNally & Co., [1917?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Offset lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | American Red Cross--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects--United States. Nurses--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,795 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221269 |
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