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Artist: Ernest Hamlin Baker, 1889-1975
Lithographer: Strobridge Lithographing Company
Funds raised: $3,872,533

As a teenager Ernest Hamlin Baker took a fifteen dollar correspondence course in drawing and studied the drawings of the famous nineteenth century American cartoonist Thomas Nast. A local Democratic newspaper in Baker's hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, offered him a job as a cartoonist during a hotly contested election for county sheriff, paying
three dollars a piece. His unflattering cartoons of the incumbents paid off, and the Democrats won the election. After college at Colgate University, Baker was even- tually contracted to do a series of covers, portraits and maps for Fortune magazine. Baker is often described as the "father" of Time magazine portraiture, where he developed a style known as "facial reporting." Baker's first cover portrait for Time appeared in 1939. Some of his more popular portraits included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Warren and Richard M. Nixon.

The 1919 seal marks the end of American Red Cross participation in the Christmas Seal program. Following the 1919 campaign, the entire program would be run by the National Tuberculosis Association and its successor the American Lung Association. The design for the 1919 seal includes both the red cross and the double barred cross of Lorraine used by the National Tuberculosis Association.