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title: 'Wanted Immediately: 2,000,000 Garments, Clothes Collection Week'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wanted-immediately-2000000-garments-clothes-collection-week-1918/
description: A typographic poster with two red crosses asks for two million garments for destitute people in occupied northern France and Belgium.
section: Collection
---

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[![Wanted Immediately: 2,000,000 Garments, Clothes Collection Week, 1918 US poster: A typographic poster with two red crosses](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wanted-immediately-2000000-garments-clothes-collection-week-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wanted-immediately-2000000-garments-clothes-collection-week-1918.jpg)

# Wanted Immediately: 2,000,000 Garments, Clothes Collection Week

A typographic poster with two red crosses asks for two million garments for destitute people in occupied northern France and Belgium. It gives collection dates, drop-off points and a telephone number; the appeal rests on the scale of the number and the Red Cross name rather than on any picture.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
WANTED
IMMEDIATELY
2,000,000
SEE DAILY PAPERS FOR COLLECTION CENTRES
GARMENTS
For destitute Men, Women and Children in
OCCUPIED NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELGIUM
Old or new clothing, dresses, underwear, shoes - wearing apparel of every kind.
CLOTHES COLLECTION WEEK
MARCH 25-30
Leave your bundle at nearest Red Cross Collection Center or any hand or steam Laundry
Under the auspices of the AMERICAN RED CROSS
Telephone Headquarters Greeley 5650
```

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