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title: Mothers of Men - Build strong bodies - Nutrition and canteen classes
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mothers-of-men-nutrition-canteen-classes-red-cross-1941/
description: 'Red Cross class-recruitment poster: a smiling gray-haired woman in a white collar fills the sheet, with a red cross emblem beside her and the line ''Build'
section: Collection
---

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[![Mothers of Men - Build strong bodies - Nutrition and canteen classes, 1941 US poster: Red Cross class-recruitment poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mothers-of-men-nutrition-canteen-classes-red-cross-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mothers-of-men-nutrition-canteen-classes-red-cross-1941.jpg)

# Mothers of Men - Build strong bodies - Nutrition and canteen classes

Red Cross class-recruitment poster: a smiling gray-haired woman in a white collar fills the sheet, with a red cross emblem beside her and the line 'Build strong bodies' above 'Nutrition and canteen classes'. The technique is transfer, the Red Cross emblem and a maternal figure lending trust to the classes; it is faint beyond that.

## 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

```
Mothers of Men-
Build
strong
bodies
NUTRITION AND
CANTEEN CLASSES
AMERICAN RED CROSS
[signature: Collins]
[imprint: POSTER 703 LITHO IN U.S.A.]
```

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