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title: Nurses of America, Humanity Calls You. What Is Your Answer?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nurses-of-america-humanity-calls-you-1917/
description: A large red cross on a white field sits between a headline addressing the nurses of America and a closing question.
section: Collection
---

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[![Nurses of America, Humanity Calls You. What Is Your Answer?, 1917 US poster: A large red cross on a white field sits between](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nurses-of-america-humanity-calls-you-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nurses-of-america-humanity-calls-you-1917.jpg)

# Nurses of America, Humanity Calls You. What Is Your Answer?

A large red cross on a white field sits between a headline addressing the nurses of America and a closing question, with an enrolment line for Army or Navy service. The tell is a virtue word ('humanity') personified as the caller, with the Red Cross emblem lending its established standing to a military recruitment request.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
-Nurses of America-
humanity
calls you

what is
your answer?

enroll now with
the American Red Cross
for Army or Navy service
```

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