The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
For Every Fighter a Woman Worker — Care for Her through the YWCA
Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) · United War Work Campaign / YWCA, 1918
What it is
Adolph Treidler's 1918 design for the United War Work Campaign frames a woman worker in flat blue overalls against a spare ground, her posture matched to the soldier the slogan pairs her with.
Why it matters
The equation is the whole argument: one fighter, one woman worker, and the YWCA funded to look after the second. Treidler worked in broad poster colour with minimal modelling, so the figure reads clean at a distance.
What to notice
A woman in blue overalls, dated 1918 — the war-work poster that put the female industrial worker on the wall as an equal.
The years America learned to argue, sell, and dream in ink.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Adolph Treidler (1886-1981)
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- United War Work Campaign / YWCA, 1918
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Live trademark
YWCA — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 40x60" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
