Have you a Red Cross service flag?

Have you a Red Cross service flag?

Item Information

Title:
Have you a Red Cross service flag?
Description:
Child hangs an image of a Red Cross service flag in the window at Christmastime.
Artist:
Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935
Sponsor:
American Red Cross
Date:
1918
Format:
Posters
Prints
Genre:
War posters
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Print Department Collection
Subjects:
Fund raising
Charitable organizations
Flags
World War, 1914-1918
American Red Cross
Places:
United States
Extent:
1 print (poster) : lithograph, color
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ft848v43t
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Forbes Boston
Notes:
Only members of the Red Cross could display flags, and additional smaller crosses, like the flag shown here, were added for other dues-paying household members.
Smith studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts after leaving her short career as a kindergarten teacher. She was a prolific contributor to books and magazines during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrating stories and articles for Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Scribner's and Ladies' Home Journal. During her career she illustrated over 60 books, 250 periodicals, and almost 200 covers for Good Housekeeping. Smith produced only one war poste. However, she participated in a program in which artists volunteered to do portraits of patriotic citizens whose purchase of Liberty Bonds were in the thousands of dollars.
Accession #:
07_01_000060