Day and night in every emergency

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number ARTV05051
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 102 cm x 77 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description offset lithograph on paper
Maker Northfield, James
AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, [N.D.] (S.L. VICTORY PUBLICITY LITHO)
Victory Publicity Lithography
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c. 1939-1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian Red Cross Society poster by James Northfield. Although there are no overt references to the Second World War within the poster it dates from this period. Image fills the top third of the poster and shows a Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service vehicle speeding through a wild night. Text is overlayed in red across the top and continues beneath the image. A Donor's Badge with a red cross and the text 'Blood Donor' inscribed inside is positioned lower right.

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