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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
Calling WAAC...
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, United States Army, 1942–1943
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 recruiting poster for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, from the corps' first fourteen months between May 1942 and July 1943, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-537 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was created on 15 May 1942 and converted to the Women's Army Corps on 1 July 1943, which fixes this sheet to the auxiliary's short life.
What to notice
The ellipsis after the name, a call left open, and the letters WAAC that date the sheet to before July 1943.
A call left open, waiting for an answer.
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
- Service
- Women’s services
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, United States Army, 1942–1943
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 514016, local id 44-PA-537), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514016 · 44-PA-537
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 514016, 44-PA-537): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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