Series VI: Organizational
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Series VI: Organizational, includes a variety of posters relating to various relief and membership efforts by the Red Cross, the YWCA, the YMCA, and other organizations.
Subseries VI.1: Red Cross
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Soldier with arm in sling; RC nurse lighting his pipe
Join the Red Cross / Wear your button / It is an evidences of your loyalty, 1919
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Button with Red Cross and 1919
Be one of / The first to aid / Enlist now / U.S.A. Ambulance Corps / 25 / West 80th St, NYC, 1917
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Soldiers driving Red Cross truck
10,000,000 members / By Christmas / On Christmas Eve / A candle in every window and / Red Cross members / In every home
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Lit candle in window with Red Cross
Answer the / Christmas roll call / Join the Red Cross
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Greatest mother in the world image and church scene
Join the Red Cross / All you need is a / Heart and a dollar
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Red Cross nurse reaching out
Make good the promise / Second War Fund / One hundred million dollars
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Pot with coins "keep it full;" map of England, France, Italy with Red Cross truck "over there"
The comforter
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RC nurse comforting woman and child on war torn terrain
Third Red Cross roll call
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RC nurse reaching out
You can help / American Red Cross
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Woman knitting
Hold up your end / War Fund Week / One hundred million dollars
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RC nurse holding up stretcher
"Help"
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RC nurse holding wounded soldier
Help send across / The Red Cross / President Woodrow Wilson / Proclaims / June 18 25 / Red Cross Week / Minnesota / Must raise / $2,000,000 / Saint Paul / Must Over / Subscribe again
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RC Nurse ministering wounded woldier on war torn territory
Learn the meaning / Of "sacrifice" / Give till it hurts / American Red Cross
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Same as "Greatest Mother in the World"
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RC Nurse reaching out directly to viewer, soldiers on parade rear
If I fail he dies / Work / For the / Red Cross, 1918
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2 RC nurses helping wounded soldier
Help / The / Red Cross
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RC nurse, wounded soldier raising hand for help
Make our / American Red Cross / In peace / As in war / "The greatest mother / In the world" / Third Red Cross roll call / November 2 11 1919, 1919
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RC nurse cradeling wounded soldier
The / Greatest mother / In the world
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RC nurse cradeling wounded soldier
Keep this / Hand of / Mercy at / Its work / War Fund Week / One hundred million dollars
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Arm with red cross on sleevel harboring war victims
Join / The greatest mother
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RC nurse watching over the globe
Red Cross / Christmas roll call / Where / Columbia / Sets / Her name / Let / Every one of you / Follow / Her, 1918
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Columbia and RC nurse
The roll call / A masque of the Red Cross / by Percy Mackaye
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Theatrical figure (in toga) pointing to Red Cross
Five thousand / By June / Graduate nurses / Your country needs you
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RC nurse, barracks rear
The spirit of America / Join, 1919
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RC nurse as Lady Liberty, carrying US flag
Second / Red Cross / War Fund
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Soldier carrying dead soldier on his shoulders
"Inasmuch as ye have done it / Unto one of the least of these" / Help your Red Cross
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Image of Christ and church; nurse ministering to wounded on battlefield
Put fighting blood in your business Here's his record/ Does he get a job?" / Arthur Woods, Assistant to the Secretary of War
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soldiers on French battlefield
I summon you to / The comradeship / Woodrow Wilson, 1918
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Portrait of Wilson
[In Japanese]
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Wounded soldiers set in Japanese caligraphy
Over here too / Red Cross will help /See your home service section
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Wounded soldiers, sailors
"The first three!" / Give till it hurts they gave till they / Died
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Memorial wreaths with faces of Hay, Enright, Gresham
Loyalty to the one means / Loyalty to both
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Soldier carrying US flag /Red Cross soldier with RE flag side by side
He can win! / The Federal Board provides training / Consult the local / Red Cross home service sectrion
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soldier at writing desk with clipers, ink, smoking pipe
The Challenge / Public health campaign / Join the crusade / Thrid Red Cross Roll Call / November 2 11
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Grim Reaper (disease and epidemics on scythe), crusader carrying shiled marked Red Cross
Caring for / American soldiers / In England Bulletin No 7 / Issued by War Council of the American Red Cross
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Soldier, Trafalgar Square rear
American Red Cross / Our boys need / SOX / Knit your bit
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Pile of wool and knitting needles in basket; Red Cross rear
Ten Million / New Members / by Christmas
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Window with Xmas tree inside home and Red Cross Service Flag in window
Join Here, 1917
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American flags; Red Cross flags crossed
"There!" / In peace as in war / Your membership does it Join / Third Red Cross Roll Call / Nov 2 11, 1919
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Photograph at the $5,000,000 oil refinery fire, Brooklyn, September 13, 1919
10,000,000 Members / By Christmas / On Christmas Eve / A candle in every / Window and / Red Cross Members / in every home
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Lit candle, Red Cross before window
Answer the / Red Cross / Christmas Roll Call, 1918
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Snow covered tree and house with Red Cross Service Flag in window
Motherless / Fatherless / Starving / How much / to save these little lives?
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Red Cross nurse protecting French Children
Have you a / Red Cross Service Flag?, 1918
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Child pasting Red Cross Service Flag on Window
Join / The American / Red Cross / All you need is a / ___ and a ___
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Punched out figurines with red paper backing for worrd "join" and images of red cross, heart and a dollar
Nurses / Of America!!! / The lives of / Our soldiers / and sailors / Depend on you / Will you enroll?
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Red cross
The Red Cross / Needs you / Join now / Be patriotic be humane, 1917
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Red cross
Join
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Red cross on navy ground
Join / All you need / Is a heart / And a dollar
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Red cross
Join now / One dollar / Everyone a / Member
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Red cross
To the / Citizens of Connecticut / In the nationwide movement to collect $100,000,000 for the Second War Fund of the American Red Cross there has been allotteed to the people of this State the / Provelidge and responsibility of subscribing $2,000,000 ..
A Vote for / Is a vote for humanity
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Red cross
Honor Roll / The following members of this organization have enrolled as members of the Red Cross for 1919, 1919
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Red cross
The Red Cross needs you / Join now / Subscribing membership / $2 a year
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Red cross
Patriotic rally / July 4th, 1918 / On Long Ridge Church Green / Auspices Long Ridge and West Redding / Red Cross Branch, 1918
Have you / A Red Cross / Service / Flag in / Your home? / Classes of membership.. .. .., 1917
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Red cross
Think what you can / Afford to give / Then double it
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Red cross
Will you be one / of a million workers / to secure members for / the American Red Cross / Third Red Cross Roll Call, Nov 2 11
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Red cross
We belong / 100% strong / 1919, 1919
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Red cross
We belong / 100% strong / 1920, 1920
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Red cross
If you knew / A day's pay would / Save a life / Would you give? / One day a month?
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Red cross
A little / Starving child / Brought back / To life / Because / You went without / some luxury
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Red cross
Need your / Old clothes / For the / Belgians / Leave them at / Osborn Hall / Sunday morning
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Red cross
Read these facts / About your / American Red Cross / Its purpose / It is working for / Your army your navy your allies and you
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Red cross
Nurses of America / Humanity calls you / What is / Your answer? / Enroll now with / the American Red Cross
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Red cross
Nurses / The call from / Noman's land / is / "Come across"
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Red cross
Nurses / This means you / Our wounded / Need care / They need you
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Red cross
The Red Cross needs you / Join Now / President Wilson says: / ExPresident Taft says: / ExPresident Roosevelt has said.. .. ..
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Red Cross
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call, Dec 16 23rd
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2 Red Crosses
Old fashioned / Husking Bee / Under auspices of the Junior Guard / Benefit of the Red Cross / Friday Dec 27th / Mark Twain Library / Dancing / Admission / 35c
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Red Cross
Proclamation / By President Wilson / (reurging a "generous response to the Third Red Cross Roll Call), 1919
Proclamation / By the President of the United States / To the school children of America / Urging them to join the Junior Red Cross
Give
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Red Cross on navy ground
While someone gives / His life what / Are you giving? / Think a minute
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Red cross
Subseries VI.2: YWCA
The girl reserves / of the YWCA / Help us put / The blue triangel / Over the top
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Girl with YMCA logo on shirt making a shopt at basketball
Ain't it a grand and glorious feelin'? / The men know / Home folks know / YWCA / Hostess House / in Seventy Camps
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Cartoon strip from NY Tribune - soldier homesick and suddenly meeting wife and child in Hostess House at YWCA
Board / and / Lodging / for relatives of /Soldiers and Sailors / 30 East 52 Street, NYC / 375 Lexington Ave (Corner of 41st St), NYC / Hostess House Committee / Terms 75c a night
What the W stands for / Welfare and Women / in War Work
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Blue YWCA tirangle with W circled
How the blue triangle / Helps in France
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YWCA blue triangle with W Circled
YWCA
Stand behind the / Country's girlhood / YWCA / New York's Share $1,750,000 / January 7th to 14th
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Head of girl
Remember the girl behind / the man behind the gun /YWCA / War Work Council
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Gilr reaching out through YWCA triangle
YWCA / In service / For the girls / Of the world, 1919
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Girl before YMCA plaque
Subseries VI.3: YMCA
Help us / Help / Our boys / Y M/W CA
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Woman in YMCA uniform hanging poster with this message
Happenings at the sign of the red triangle in hany lands, 1917
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12 photos in various activities sponsored by the YMCA
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Soldiers filing into YMCA hut
YMCA / YWCA / His / Home / Over there
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Red YMCA triangle; blue YWCA tirangle
War Work Week: November 11 19 / YMCA / War Work / With the colors / Local council in each town / New England War Work Council / 324 Little Building, Boston, 1917
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YMCA Red triangle logo
War Work Week: November 11 19 / Major General John F. O'Ryan says: / "Money can be turned over to the YMCA with every / Confidence.. ..", 1917
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Photo of Major General O'Ryan at his desk
Marked out by a line / of white tape the / Road from Hell leads / to a little bit of Heaven
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Wounded soldier being helped past white ribbon with sighn reading "for walking, wounded / YMCA / Free Refreshments"
War Work Week: November 11 19 / Gen John Pershing says: / "The work now being done by the YMCA for the comfort and enter / tainment of your soldiers in France is very important", 1917
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Gen Pershing
Manchester City tramways / YMCA / Hut week collection / Put your gift into the collecting / Box on the car platform
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Soldiers logging throgh snow toYMCA hut
War Work Week: November 11 19 /Maj Gen Hugh L. Scott says: / "I do not know what the army would do / Without the YMCA.", 1917
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Maj Gen Hugh L. Scott
War Work Week: November 11 19 / Secretary of War Newton D. Baker says of the YMCA (.. ..), 1917
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Newton D. Baker
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Soldier watching men filing into hut marked YMCA
Subseries VI.4: Miscellaneous Organizations
"Share and Have" / Benjamin Franklin
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Ben Franklin and Statue of Liberty
The Hand Across / the Sea / Week Oct 13 20, 1918
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Arm labeled "war emergency fund" extended from church to our mission field carrying apurse with money and Liberty Bonds spilling out
The Meaning of America
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photos: Statue of Liberty, Armed Freedom, Dome of Capitol
"Keep the / Work of / the church / at concert / Pitch" / Woodrow Wilson
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church and congregants / soldiers on the battlefield
Public notice / No 1 / Congress has deided that the / Government of the United States Will issue regular forms of Insur / ance policies to which the present / War risk term policies may be converteed
$196,000 War Emergency Fund / !132,000 Liquidation Fund / Make your Liberty / Bonds work for church / and country Oct 13 20, 1918
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Liberty Bond
Our War Emergency Fund why? / Higher cost / of travel / of building / of medicines / of rents and fuel / of ministerial relief / of necessary salaries / of postage and printing / must be met by emergency fund that the / Work of the Church Boards [.. ..], 1918
We need an army to protect us
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Belgian children, flag bearers (courtsey of Red Cross Magazine); photo of trees cut down by Germans (courtsey Univ of State of NY)
Our Church's Duty / in the war / We must raise $500,000 in January for this /work in 1918 / William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, / Chariman , The Church War Commission, 1918
Awake and Safeguard America
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Soldiers lined up under American Flag (image courtsey of NY Illustrated Post Card and Novelty Co)