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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Become a Nurse: Your Country Needs You
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of War Information, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A nursing recruitment poster of the Second World War, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-135 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The Office of War Information ran from June 1942 to September 1945 as the link between the battlefront and the civilian communities at home, and its Bureau of Special Services gathered this sheet.
What to notice
The second line borrows the oldest form of the recruiting poster, the country needing you, and applies it to a nurse's training.
The recruiting sergeant's line, given to the nurse.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Enlist · Women at War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513583, local id 44-PA-135), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513583 · 44-PA-135
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 513583, 44-PA-135): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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