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"Hold Up Your End!" War Fund Week Poster

In service and at the ready for World War I

During World War I, many women risked their lives to care for troops and took on active roles, as depicted in this poster seeking contributions for war relief efforts. Although women were still denied the right to vote, the government allowed them to serve in limited roles, ranging from dietitian to telephone operator. But the majority of women service members—more than 23,000 over the course of the war—were nurses. The government refused to grant American military nurses permanent commissioned rank and its accompanying benefits until after World War II.

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Hold Up Your End! War Fund Week

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
1918
Accession Number
1980-32-1186
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Poster
Type
Poster
Medium
Offset lithograph on paper
made in
USA
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Record ID
chndm_1980-32-1186
Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48dd6e2d8-3bd4-4952-9a9f-40f3a784358d

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