URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/37584
Collection Structure Poster collection >  Fighting in France for freedom. Are you helping at home? Issued by Connecticut State Council of Defense, State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut. Save fruit pits and nut shells and help save soldiers' lives. The War Department needs the pits and shells because they furnish the best carbon for the gas masks which protect our fighters. Make your contribution to your war bureau or local Red Cross Chapter.
Item Title Fighting in France for freedom. Are you helping at home? Issued by Connecticut State Council of Defense, State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut. Save fruit pits and nut shells and help save soldiers' lives. The War Department needs the pits and shells because they furnish the best carbon for the gas masks which protect our fighters. Make your contribution to your war bureau or local Red Cross Chapter.
Collection Title Poster collection
Issuing Body United States. Council of National Defense
Publisher Connecticut State Council of Defense
Date Created 1917/1918?
Description Photograph, with caption, of Americans with captured German gun in France.
Subject(s) American National Red Cross Supplies and stores Organic wastes France Army A.E.F., 1917-1920 World War, 1914-1918 Red Cross War Department Gas masks War work United States Recycling (Waste, etc.) Social aspects
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Country of Origin United States
Place Published Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Dimensions Overall: 16 x 19 in. (40.6 x 48.3 cm)
Format Poster
Medium political posters
Color black and white
Color black and white
Hoover ID Poster US 4355
Record Number XX343.27960
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
Rights No known restrictions.