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Join! The American Red Cross – Antique Wall Art

Join! The American Red Cross, Washington, D.C. : Potomac Litho. Mfg. Co., [1917?] — vintage poster
Join! The American Red Cross, Washington, D.C. : Potomac Litho. Mfg. Co., [1917?]. Vintage poster from the World War I collection.

(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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Newspaper carriers are the particular focus of this poster, which the record lists among its subjects alongside Red Cross recruiting. Printed in Washington, D.C., by the Potomac Lithographing Manufacturing Company, it is dated around 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War. That year the Red Cross ran large membership drives asking ordinary Americans to join and support relief work for soldiers and civilians, and delivery boys who visited every household made natural messengers. The color lithography is typical of the wartime poster boom of 1914 to 1918.

Created / publishedWashington, D.C. : Potomac Litho. Mfg. Co., [1917?]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 74 x 50 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920.
SubjectsAmerican Red Cross--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Newspaper carriers--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,279 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference120_Join_The_American_Red_C_1917

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