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Description: | Concept: charities, wounded / disabled, women / womens work, refugees, postal services, medical / convalescence, emblems, civilian effort, flag / banner / standard Description: whole: the image occupies the whole, with the title and text integrated and positioned upper centre and lower centre, in black hand-written script against a white background. image: a letter and an opened envelope are positioned against a background of brick, within a border of classical columns. The poster's title is written on the envelope; the text is written on the letter. From the columns hang two oval images of Red Cross nurses at work; at the foot of the poster is a larger image of a Red Cross nurse aiding refugees. There are palm fronds at the top of each column, and flags across the centre of the pediment. text: CROIX-ROUGE FRANÇAISE REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE POSTES 15c. et 5c. CROIX ROUGE Aux bonne Françaises et aux bons Français CROIX-ROUGE FRANÇAISE Sté Fse DE SECOURS AUX BLESSÉS MILITAIRES UNION DE FEMMES DE FRANCE........ ASSOCIATION DES DAMES FRANÇAISES Vous tous qui voulez aidez à soigner les blessés des champs de bataille; à hospitalisez les invalides et les malades de la guerre; à secourir nos malheureux compatriotes des régions dévastées Employez le timbre postal de la Croix-Rouge Française 15c pour l'affranchissement 5c au profit de l'uvre - en vente dans tous les bureaux de poste et tous les bureaux de tabac Vous [indecipherable]oignerez ainsi votre patriotisme et vous vous [indecipherable]tirerez la reconnaissance de nos chers soldats. [signature of the following individual] LE GÉNÉRAL PAU Président du Comité central de la Croix Rouge Française [signature of the following individual] Mme LA COMTESSE D'HAUSSONVILLE Présidente du Comité des Dames S. B. M. [signature of the following individual] Mme S. PÉROUSE Présidente U. F. F. [signature of the following individual] Mme MARG. E. CARNOT Présidente A. D. F. L.PTULLE VISA No. 12769. IMP. CHAIX_PARIS_9-18. [French Red Cross. French Republic. Postage 15c. and 5c. to the Red Cross. To good Frenchwomen and good Frenchmen. French Red Cross. Fr. Soc. for Help to Wounded Servicemen. Union of Women of France. Association of French Ladies. All you who want to help care for those wounded on the battlefield; to get those disabled and ill because of war to hospital; to succour our unfortunate fellow countrymen from the devastated regions. Use the postage stamp of the French Red Cross 15c for postage 5c to benefit the Charity - on sale at all post offices and all tobacconists. Thus you will [indecipherable] nurture [?] your patriotism and you will [indecipherable] attract [?] the gratitude of our dear soldiers. President of the French Red Cross. President of the Committee of Ladies for Help to Wounded Servicemen. President of the Union of Women of France. President of the Association of French Ladies.] Object: letter, envelope, stamp, palm frond, column, flag, pediment | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Tulle, L P[?] Printer: Imprimerie Chaix, Paris Publisher/Sponsor: Croix-Rouge Française [French Red Cross] | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2913... | Go to resource |
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