Red Cross blood drive for the war effort

ca. 1935-1950

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Red Cross blood drive for the war effort
  • Title
  • Red Cross blood drive for the war effort
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1935-1950
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.451
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.451
  • Description
  • Five nurses take blood from donors. The nurses are wearing white uniforms with handkerchief caps, designed ca. 1940. One has a Red Cross badge on her sleeve. The donors are all men in business dress. On the back wall, posters read: For Defense, Blood...Life," and they feature a medic holding a blood bag above a wounded soldier on a battlefield."
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Blood donors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Health care--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Nurses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh