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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Your Red Cross Needs You!
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Your Red Cross Needs You!

Artifact IDMO 2005.13.18.1.2
Object Type Poster
Artist (American illustrator, painter, and author, 1877-1960)
Issuing Body (American organization, founded 1881)
Date1942
Mediumpaper (cardboard), ink
Dimensionsoverall H 32 1/2 in x W 21 in (82.6 cm x 53.3 cm )
Physical DescriptionA color poster featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam standing behind a young woman in an active service Red Cross nursing uniform and cape. His left hand rests on her left shoulder. A dramatic sky is in the background. The Red Cross symbol is in the upper left corner of the poster. The artist's facsimile signature is in the lower left corner of the illustration: JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG. Along the bottom of the poster, within a blue box, is light yellow text that reads: YOUR RED CROSS NEEDS YOU! Printed in the very bottom lower right corner of the poster: LITHO IN U.S.A.

The poster has a cardboard easel backer.
Historical NoteArtist and illustrator James Montgomery Flagg employed his familiar Uncle Sam figure in this wartime poster for the American Red Cross.
Additional Details
Custodial History NoteDonated to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum by the Adriance Memorial Library.
Credit LineGift of the Adriance Memorial Library
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesOriginal Posters from World War I and World War II (National Archives Identifier 739394)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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