India Restores Her War Cripples to Self-Support (Red Cross Institute exhibit poster)

An exhibit poster pairs two photographs, disabled Indian soldiers learning motor mechanics and carpentry at a Bombay technical school, under the headline that India 'restores her war cripples to self-support'. Two trades at one school carry a claim about a whole country; the sheet gives no numbers of men trained, employed or left without work.

Date: 1919
Period: Interwar
Made by: Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, with the Red Cross Institute for the Blind (exhibit)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: NGO
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Health, Labor
Event: World War I
Techniques: Card stacking
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931)
1919. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00651704/.

Text on the object

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

[top, small: Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind]
India Restores Her War Cripples
to Self-Support
Automobile mechanics is a popular trade with the disabled men at Queen Mary's Technical School, Bombay, India
The loss of limb does not prevent the injured soldiers of India's forces from becoming good carpenters

The Library of Congress caption note gives the same two captions. The small exhibit credit at the top is only partly legible.