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World War I propaganda posters

Our greatest mother - join!

Women who wanted to play a more active role could serve as nurses. This poster showed nursing as the natural extension of motherhood. A Red Cross nurse, “our greatest mother,” shelters a young girl from the war raging in the background.

Poster by: Cornelius Hicks / American Lithographic Co. Inc., N.Y. U.S.A.

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