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Poster of a Red Cross nurse

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Posts about Nurses written by Jakealoo

Poster of a Red Cross nurse helping a soldier that is aimed to recruit more nurses.

Beautiful WWI-era Red Cross Nurse

This exhibit from the National Library of Medicine presents a selection of historic postcards that span a century of nursing imagery and investigates the hold these images exert on the public imagination—then and now.

After the U.S. declared war in April of 1917, there was a great outpouring of volunteerism. Women were eager to support “our boys,” and magazines aimed at female readers were a perfect…