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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Do the Job He Left Behind
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 poster for women's war work, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-241 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
Images of women war workers were everywhere in government posters, and the government leaned on commercial advertising to bring women into the factories in place of the men who had gone.
What to notice
The headline treats the work as his, held in trust, the woman at the bench standing in for a man who left it.
A workbench, kept warm for his return.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Women at War · Production
- 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 513683, local id 44-PA-241), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513683 · 44-PA-241
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 513683, 44-PA-241): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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