The American Red cross in the great war
A 1919 Macmillan volume on the American Red Cross in the Great War, compiled by Henry Pomeroy Davison for a general reading public and preserved by the Smithsonian Libraries. The four photographs show Red Cross workers in uniform at work: a long workroom with rows of seated women, a group of nurses posed before uniformed soldiers, a hospital ward with visitors, and a tea scene in a convalescent setting. Their dense documentary halftones, with captions printed along the margins, suggest a designer might borrow the plain, archival look of wartime relief reporting, with its orderly rows and white uniforms.
