Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
Don't give your blood to the 7th Column give it to the Red Cross.
Title (Alternative):
Give it to the Red Cross
Contributor (Organization):
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
Subject (Genre):
Posters
Subject (MeSH Term):
Blood Donors
Subject (MeSH Term):
Blood Banks
Subject (MeSH Term):
World War II
Subject (MeSH Term):
Wounds and Injuries
Subject (MeSH Term):
Accidents
Publication Information:
Boston : Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, [194-?]
Publication Country:
United States
Copyright Statement:
This item may be under copyright protection. Please ask copyright owner for permission before publishing.
Order No.:
C02847
Physical Description:
1 photomechanical print (poster) : col. ; 80 x 61 cm.
Image Description:
Subject: Black and white poster showing a hand with a bleeding wound and another hand trying to stop the flow of blood. The only color on the poster is the blood on the hand and the phrase Red [logo] Cross. The blood drops fall from the hand and end at the logo for the Red Cross.
Subject (Organization):
American Red Cross.
Note (General):
Accession number: 02-50.
Note (General):
Poster is creased and has a large tear along the right side. The poster has been placed in its own mylar sleeve.
Note (General):
Picture caption: Carelessness--Americ a's 7th Column--is our greatest home front enemy. In the first year of war, accidents killed 100,000 men, women, and children, and injured 9,300,000 more. Don't give your blood to the 7th Column ... give it to the Red Cross. A pint of your blood may save the life of an American fighting man. Any normally healthy man or woman between 18 and 60 may be a donor. Call your local Red Cross Chapter for an appointment.
Language:
eng
Restrictions on Access:
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Call Number:
PP05119 map
Record UI:
101456079

Don't give your blood to the 7th Column give it to the Red Cross.

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