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William Allen Rogers Pays Tribute to Wartime Nurses
A moving vision of wounded soldiers needing care sustains a Red Cross nurse on her storm-tossed voyage to the war front. William Allen Rogers extols the courage and selfless patriotism of nurses in this and other drawings that also specifically reference the dangers they faced in German attacks on hospital ships. He may have created this image for a poster as notes on the back of the drawing state it was "sent to [the] American Red Cross Second War Fund." Known primarily for his scenes of the American West, Rogers focused on cartooning after 1900 and created poster designs during World War I. |