GIVE DONNONS THE CANADIAN RED CROSS LA CROIX ROUGE CANADIENNE

Description : A Propaganda Poster incorporating many images, nurse, old praying woman, wounded soldier, with a need for money and blood. Accession No. : HF-01-F22 Image Date : 1939 to 1945 Location : CMPS Museum Artist : Stapleton, Archibald Bruce Measurements : 67.5 cm X 50.5 cm Comments : In response to propaganda such as this, Canadians gave $90 million to the Red Cross during the Second World War. There are references here, in both the praying old woman and the pleading young nurse, to a wide variety of traditionally understood "female" attributes, including wisdom, spirituality, caring, and motherhood. Propaganda in this period would wrestle with balancing public perceptions of women's traditional roles with the growing wartime requirement for non-traditional forms of activity and employment. Designed by Bruce Stapleton Printer unknown Possibly published by The Canadian Red Cross Commercial colour print, 1940-1945 Canada CWM 19720114-023

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