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Workers Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle
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World War I poster featuring an illustration of an older man in a YMCA uniform next to a mason lifting a stone, the symbol of a triangle with YMCA, and a shadow of a soldier aiming a rifle and bayonet in a cloud of smoke. Poster text reads: "Workers, lend your strength to the red triangle. Help the "Y" help the fighters fight. United War Work Campaign — November 11 to 18."
1918
United War Work Campaign, Inc.
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W014GXC
WHi 131520
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