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
- Date
- 1918
- 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- 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-178.
Text on the object
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
