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title: 'Keep This Hand of Mercy at Its Work: War Fund Week, One Hundred Million Dollars'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-this-hand-of-mercy-at-its-work-war-fund-week-1917-1919/
description: A giant arm in a white sleeve marked with a red cross reaches down in a beam of light toward a small group of refugees among ruined buildings.
section: Collection
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[![Keep This Hand of Mercy at Its Work: War Fund Week, One Hundred Million Dollars, 1917 US poster: A giant arm in a white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-this-hand-of-mercy-at-its-work-war-fund-week-1917-1919.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-this-hand-of-mercy-at-its-work-war-fund-week-1917-1919.jpg)

# Keep This Hand of Mercy at Its Work: War Fund Week, One Hundred Million Dollars

A giant arm in a white sleeve marked with a red cross reaches down in a beam of light toward a small group of refugees among ruined buildings, while shell bursts flash at the left. The tell of transfer is the radiant, outsized hand, which lends a quasi-sacred aura to a fundraising ask, while the ruins and explosions supply the fear-appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Keep this
Hand of
Mercy at
its work.
War Fund Week
One Hundred Million Dollars
[artist's signature: P. G. MORGAN]
```

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