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Can you drive a car?--Will you drive one in France?--Immediate service at the front!
Can you drive a car?--Will you drive one in France?--Immediate service at the front!
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Buy wall art of this image titled: Can you drive a car?--Will you drive one in France?--Immediate service at the front!, from the World War I Posters Collection by Second Story Prints. Top quality print reproductions available now!
- American Field Service--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920.
- World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects--United States.
- Ambulances--American--France--1910-1920.
- Caption label from exhibit "Gibson Girl's America Political Cartoonist": Appeal for Action. Robed in the American flag, Miss Columbia, the symbolic embodiment of the nation, fends off skeletal Death with one arm, while shielding a wounded soldier with her other. In this poster, which calls the viewer to service, Gibson pays tribute to the American Ambulance Field Service, founded by young Americans in Paris after the start of World War I. Some 2,500 volunteer ambulance drivers supported French Armies in every major battle and carried more than 500,000 wounded as well as munitions and supplies.
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- American Field Service, 40 State Street, Boston, Mass.
- Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
- Exhibited: "The Gibson Girl's America : Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2013.
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