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With its terrifying gorilla in a German military helmet reaching the shores of America, leaving a devastated Europe behind, this propaganda poster uses fear of the enemy as a military recruitment tool. Anti-German propaganda themes contributed to the…

The International Red Cross Florence Nightingale Award is the highest international distinction a nurse can achieve and is awarded to nurses or nursing aides for "exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or disabled or to civilian…

This poster makes the connection between frugal use of food (here, produce possibly homegrown in a Victory Garden) and success on the front lines of battle. Many government posters encouraged less waste and limited use of products like wheat, meat,…

The November 1918 issue of the Johns Hopkins Nurses Alumnae Magazine includes a description of Alice Fitzgerald’s work to have American nurses care for American soldiers in French hospitals for the Service de Sante, notices about the Spanish…

Laura Brey’s poster calls on middle and upper class men (such as the students and faculty of Hopkins) to enlist. In it, a man in a suit stands in a shadowy room, pensively watching a bright and bold military display outside.

Illustrative photo of an autopsied lung and hand-colored drawing of a bacterial culture.

Circular silver medal featuring the bust of King George V on the front with raised text around head; reverse features the image of St. George on horseback with reins in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, trampling a shield bearing an eagle…