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title: Help the Red Cross
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/help-the-red-cross-1917/
description: A nurse with a red cross on her cap and apron raises one arm beside the large headline 'Help the Red Cross' while holding a figure against her chest.
section: Collection
---

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[![Help the Red Cross, 1917 US poster: A nurse with a red cross on her cap and apron raises one arm beside the large headline](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/help-the-red-cross-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/help-the-red-cross-1917.jpg)

# Help the Red Cross

A nurse with a red cross on her cap and apron raises one arm beside the large headline 'Help the Red Cross' while holding a figure against her chest. The two-colour design relies on the organisation's own emblem and the nurse's image, with no argument beyond the headline.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HELP
THE
RED CROSS
HERMAN
ROE.G
```

The artist's name at bottom left is printed in two lines as 'HERMAN / ROE.G'.

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