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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- American Red Cross Blood Donor Service (painting by Mead Schaeffer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Health, War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
American Red Cross. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1424 (NAID 515088).
Text on the object
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
