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title: Now dedicate your blood to a man overseas!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/now-dedicate-your-blood-1941/
description: 'Red Cross blood donor poster: a painting of a wounded soldier with a plasma bottle hung from a rifle, above a plasma package carrying a sample dedication'
section: Collection
---

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[![Now dedicate your blood to a man overseas!, 1941 US poster: Red Cross blood donor poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/now-dedicate-your-blood-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/now-dedicate-your-blood-1941.jpg)

# Now dedicate your blood to a man overseas!

Red Cross blood donor poster: a painting of a wounded soldier with a plasma bottle hung from a rifle, above a plasma package carrying a sample dedication label. A red arrow reads 'Sign your name on the package'. The technique is transfer, tying the donor's gift to a named serviceman, with a plain-folks sample label ('Mrs. John Doe').

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NOW
Dedicate your Blood
to a man overseas!
SIGN YOUR NAME
ON THE PACKAGE
The plasma contained in this package was processed from the blood of volunteer donors enrolled by the American Red Cross and symbolizes in part the blood gratefully donated by
Mrs. John Doe, 1800 Blank St. N. W., Washington, D. C.
in honor of Her son - Sgt. Richard Doe of the United States armed forces
FORM 2601 A
From The Saturday Evening Post cover painting by Mead Schaeffer
AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DONOR SERVICE
POSTER 1200
```

[← Nobody runs from empty guns!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nobody-runs-from-empty-guns-1941/) [Now I can buy the things I love! Here's my passport to independence →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/now-i-can-buy-the-things-i-love-1941/)

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- [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
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