Americans made bandages, knit socks, collected books and enrolled in Red Cross, Victory Corps and Civilian Defense organizations to support the troops abroad.
American Junior Red Cross
(WWI poster promoting Junior Red Cross organization)
Are you doing all you can?
(WWII poster encouraging volunteerism)
Baseball player Jim Vaughn
(WWII photo of baseball player volunteering for war work)
Campfire Girls
(WWI photo of Campfire Girls making bandages)
Come on - Join now
(WWI Red Cross poster)
Have you a Red Cross service flag?
(WWI Red Cross poster by Jessie Willcox Smith)
Gineva King, Courtney Letts, and Elizabeth Brockie, sitting around a table, rolling bandages
(WWI photo of women rolling bandages)
High school Victory Corps
(High school students join Victory Corps during WWII)
Junior Red Cross Comrades all
(WWI Junior Red Cross poster)
Junior Red Cross Guards
(WWI photo of boys knitting)
Northwestern University Ambulance Corps
(WWI photo of members of volunteer ambulance corps)
Our boys need sox
(WWI Red Cross poster soliciting people to knit socks for servicemen)
Red Cross volunteers
(Photo of WWI medical volunteers)
The Red cross wants you
(WWI Red Cross recruiting broadside)
Red Cross women sitting at long tables in room making influenza masks
(WWI Red Cross workers)
Train to be a nurse's aide
(WWII Civilian Defense poster soliciting women to be nurse’s aides)
Unidentified men making wooden boxes
(Red Cross workers making boxes WWI)
Urgent - volunteers needed at once!
(WW II poster calling for civilian defense volunteers)
Volunteer for victory
(WWII Red Cross poster soliciting volunteers)
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