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title: 'Line up! Home nursing class: the nation''s power ... a healthy home!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/line-up-home-nursing-class-red-cross-1941/
description: 'Red Cross enrolment poster: a yellow pennant reading ''Line up!'' and a white flag with the red cross reading ''Home Nursing Class'' fly over a night-time'
section: Collection
---

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[![Line up! Home nursing class: the nation's power... a healthy home!, 1941 US poster: Red Cross enrolment poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/line-up-home-nursing-class-red-cross-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/line-up-home-nursing-class-red-cross-1941.jpg)

# Line up! Home nursing class: the nation's power ... a healthy home!

Red Cross enrolment poster: a yellow pennant reading 'Line up!' and a white flag with the red cross reading 'Home Nursing Class' fly over a night-time aerial view of lit suburban houses. The Red Cross emblem is set over the whole neighbourhood (transfer), and the closing line 'The nation's power ... a healthy home!' is a broad virtue slogan (glittering generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
LINE UP!
HOME NURSING CLASS
THE NATION'S POWER
. . . a Healthy Home!
AMERICAN RED CROSS
POSTER 704
```

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