Object Details
Designer
W. B. King, American, 1880–1927
Client
American Red Cross, Washington, D.C., USA
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Poster with a light yellow background depicting a Red Cross nurse in the center holding up one end of a brown stretcher and extending the other end in the foreground towards the viewer. The nurse wears a white and greenish-grey uniform, with a badge wrapped around her right arm and a nurse's hat on top of her short brown hair—both featuring a red cross against a white background. An artillery shell bursts in the air at her right behind her. Printed in black, diagonally, across the center of the poster, overlapping with the stretcher: Hold up your end! A large red cross appears directly underneath in the center of the stretcher. Printed in smaller black text, below the cross: WAR FUND WEEK / One Hundred Million Dollars.
Credit Line
Gift of Unknown Donor
Date
1918
Accession Number
1980-32-1186
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Poster
Type
Poster
Medium
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions
70 × 52 cm (27 9/16 × 20 1/2 in.)
made in
USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1980-32-1186