War Charities Fund, Red Cross and St. John. 15 pamphlets, all illustrated, all in wrappers, all from the Library of Congress. $500

This is a lovely little archive, well written and well illustrated. I can find NONE of them in WorldCat/OCLC. All but one are the same size (9”x .55”). All have a faded Library of Congress serials stamp, and then the smaller LC “Pamphlet Collections” on the front cover. All are fresh and bright. Scarce. $500

There are five pamphlets that are dedicated to collecting and (hopefully) distributing goods to prisoners of war of Nazi Germany:

• What the Red Cross & St. John War Organization is Doing for Them. Prisoners of War. April 1943. 6pp, trifolded. Excellent piece of home-front propaganda.

• What the Red Cross & St. John Organization is Doing for Them. Prisoners of War. April 1943. trifold, 6pp. Next-of-kin parcels, books and indoor recreations (“boredom and depression are deadly enemies in prison life and must be conquered…”), sports and games (“Conditions for sports vary from camp to camp…”)invalid comforts, occupation for invalids, and “do the parcels arrive?”. “The prisoners rely on you!”

• The Student Prisoner. The Work if the Educational Books Section of the Prisoner of War Department of the Red Cross & St. John. March, 1944. 6pp, trifold.

• What the Red Cross & St. John has done for Your Prisoner of War, September 1944. 8pp. Interesting marginal drawings and photos.

• British and Dominion Prisoners of War, Some Questions Answered. British Red Cross Society and Order of St John. March 1944. 6pp, trifold.

• The Work of the British Red Cross & St. John. March, 1944. 7×5″, trifolded single sheet into 6pp, photos. POWs, Relief to Air-Raid Sufferers, help for CD workers.

• The Work of the British Red Cross & St. John. September 1944, 7”x5′, 8pp. POWS, the hospital lbrary, under fives.