Red cross nurse

Poster of a Red Cross nurse

Beautiful WWI-era Red Cross Nurse

Red Cross Nurses were a symbol of modernity and of Japan’s commitment to humanitarian ideals, during the Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905). Postcards reflected this by updating the age old tradition of Bijin-e (pictures of beautiful women). This postcard is from the “Thousand Contemporary Figures” series.

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.

artist- Robert Reid

Pin up Nurse

dressgrey cotton dress, ankle-length cut as a shirt-waister with long-sleeves and worn with a detachable collar. The hem of the skirt is finished with three bands of the same material as the the rest of the dress.

Red Cross Nurse

United States - Red Cross Nurses on postcards, 1917.

A vintage Red Cross nurse - by Walter Martin Baumhofer. #nurses

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.

#2028. Angel of Mercy, February, 2020. Historically it has been a man's world. In 1861 after seeing young soldiers fighting in the American Civil War die needlessly due solely to lack of timely medical care, Clara Barton rallied other women and fought to have women working in the field army hospitals. Barton retired to Switzerland, where a new international organization had formed to provide humanitarian relief. Barton returned to the USA and with the to establish the American Red Cross.

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.

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.

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1916 Red Cross Cinderella Stamp from St. Pierre & Michelon.