1917 Original WWI Poster Red Cross If You Cant Go Across With A Gun 28x40 for Sale

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1917 Original WWI Poster Red Cross If You Cant Go Across With A Gun 28x40 For Sale

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1917 Original WWI Poster Red Cross If You Cant Go Across With A Gun 28x40:
$225.00

Authentic ca. 1917 WWI Poster by C.W. Love : "If you can't go across with a gun, Come across with your part of the Red Cross War Fund"

Measures approx 28 x 40 inches

Original Vintage Lithograph, over 100 years old.

Great eye appeal and good condition for a print its age. Tears at top and side edge that have been repaired with archival mending tissue from behind. Minor creasing and a couple small edge nicks; else very good. Paper is extremely bright and the image is well inked.

This is an vintage Red Cross advertisement that was used during World War I to raise awarene about the War Fund. It was designed by C.W. Love (1881 -1967) and produced by the United States Printing and Lithograph Co. of New York. The poster depicts a wounded soldier reaching out to a Red Cross Flag, behind him stand a woman and child also facing the flag. The background of the poster shows the New York Harbor, specifically the Statue of Liberty; the two contrasting light and dark images connect the soldiers fighting abroad and the victims of the warwith the civilians back in the United States. The Red Cross WarFund was a means for non-military Americans to provide aid to both injured soldiers and European civilians; the posters text, "If you can't go across with a gun, Come across with your part of the Red Cross War Fund," drives home this message.

Poster will be shipped rolled as issued in a sturdy mailing tube. Please view photos as they are considered a part of this description. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you!