2010.54.15177
Serve The People
circa 1974
30.625 in HIGH x 20 in WIDE
(77.79 cm HIGH x 50.8 cm WIDE)
(77.79 cm HIGH x 50.8 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.15177
"185" handwritten in blue ink on verso bottom right corner.
Poster has green/blue and green ink printed on white paper. At the top left is "Serve The People" in white followed by a large image of a child handing something to figures sitting on the ground. At the bottom of the poster are three image - nurses working, children reading and a group of people. Each photo corresponds to text below relating to the communist view on medicine, education and culture.
Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a Canadian-born physician who joined the anti-Fascist struggle in Spain and later was an activist doctor during the Chinese revolution under Mao Zedong. [LMC]
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