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title: Red Cross Volunteer Nurse's Aide
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/red-cross-volunteer-nurses-aide-1943/
description: Color portrait of a smiling young woman in a Red Cross nurse's aide cap and blue pinafore against a cloudy sky.
section: Collection
---

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[![Red Cross Volunteer Nurse's Aide, 1943 US poster: Color portrait of a smiling young woman in a Red Cross nurse's aide cap](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/red-cross-volunteer-nurses-aide-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/red-cross-volunteer-nurses-aide-1943.jpg)

# Red Cross Volunteer Nurse's Aide

Color portrait of a smiling young woman in a Red Cross nurse's aide cap and blue pinafore against a cloudy sky. Red headline over the head; enrolment call at the foot. The tell is the idealised portrait and the line 'Your help can save many lives', an appeal to a general good.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
RED CROSS
VOLUNTEER NURSE'S AIDE

ENROLL TODAY AS A RED CROSS VOLUNTEER NURSE'S AIDE
YOUR HELP CAN SAVE MANY LIVES . . . FIND THE TIME . . . GIVE IT NOW
Call Your Red Cross Chapter or Local Civilian Defense Volunteer Office

[imprint: LITHO IN U. S. A.]
[imprint: POSTER 711 JUNE, 1943]
```

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