[Postcard of a Red Cross -allocated drawing]. Reasoned classification: This is a postcard on whose obverse a drawing related to the Red Cross appears. Reverse printing identifies it as a charity service card. The fields of the right half serve the identification of the soldier and the place it occupies in the army. The embryonic idea of what will later be the Red Cross is collected in the book "A memory of Solferino" by Henry Dunant (1828-1910 ). In him he wrote textually: "whose purpose will be to take care of the wounded in time of war through enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers, perfect
[Postcard of a Red Cross -allocated drawing]. Reasoned classification: This is a postcard on whose obverse a drawing related to the Red Cross appears. Reverse printing identifies it as a charity service card. The fields of the right half serve the identification of the soldier and the place it occupies in the army. The embryonic idea of what will later be the Red Cross is collected in the book "A memory of Solferino" by Henry Dunant (1828-1910 ). In him he wrote textually: "whose purpose will be to take care of the wounded in time of war through enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers, perfectly qualified for their work." The formal Constitution of the Red Cross occurred in 1863 with the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross. A year later the first Geneva agreement was signed.
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