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You Can Help

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring a young woman sitting in a chair knitting. The symbol of the Red Cross is in the upper left corner. The poster reads: "You can...
Photograph

Red Cross

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Description: Red Cross leaving Berlin.
Poster

Give More to the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Poster has red cross logo in all four corners. Text reads "Give more to the Red Cross. The boys who risk their lives to protect you, need the protection yo...
Poster

The Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a monumental woman cradling a wounded man. She is wearing a Red Cross hat, and the Red Cross insignia behind her on the...
Poster

Join American Red Cross Poster

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster depicting a young nurse extending out her right hand. In the background, wolves are approaching the front porch of a house, and howling ...
Photograph

World War I War Work

Date: 1917
Description: Red Cross volunteers preparing bandages at a Red Cross office in New York City. The woman standing on the right, who is supervising the work, is Mrs. Belmo...
Map or Atlas

Western Half of Douglas County, Wisconsin, Showing War-Related Organizations by Location

Date: 1918
Description: This World War I era map fragment depicting the western portion of Douglas County, Wisconsin, includes manuscript annotations and stickers pasted onto the ...
Photograph

Transporting Wounded in Czernowitz

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Description: Transporting wounded soldiers in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) in Bukowina.
Photograph

Red Cross

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Description: Red Cross leaving Berlin.
Photograph

Russian Red Cross

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Description: Russian Red Cross wagon captured by the Germans.
Poster

The Disabled Man Can Win

Date: 1918
Description: A man in a military uniform is covering his mouth with one hand and holding a crutch with the other. Poster text reads: "The disabled man can win. Your loc...
Photograph

Women Volunteering for World War I Work

Date: 1917
Description: Volunteers signing up at the Red Cross office in New York to do hospital or other volunteer work. The woman in the white smock and dark hat is Mrs. Belmont...
Poster

Are You

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a Red Cross insignia in the top center. Text reads: "Are You — a graduate nurse, undergraduate nurse, practical nurse, hospital attendant,...
Photograph

Red Cross Sisters

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Description: Red Cross sisters in front of the Reichstag building.
Photograph

Austrian Red Cross

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Description: Austrian Red Cross sisters speaking with Austrian and German soldiers.
Photograph

Red Cross Donations

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Description: Collecting donations for the Red Cross.
Poster

Third Red Cross Roll Call

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a female nurse in a white uniform with a Red Cross logo on her dress and her hat. She is also wearing a long white veil...
Photograph

Austrian Red Cross

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Description: Austrian Red Cross sisters speaking with Austrian and German soldiers.
Photograph

Mailing Letters at the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers mailing letters home at the Red Cross L.O.C. canteen in France.
Photograph

Female Red Cross Volunteers

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Description: Female Red Cross volunteers in front of the Reichstag building.

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