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
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- American Red Cross
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Health, Gender and suffrage
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
American Red Cross. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-221.
Text on the object
-Nurses of America- humanity calls you what is your answer? enroll now with the American Red Cross for Army or Navy service
