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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
I Have a Real War Job
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 war work at home, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-1035 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The Office of War Information's Bureau of Special Services gathered this sheet into the federal poster files, and government posters of the war made the home-front worker a figure as familiar as the soldier.
What to notice
The word real: the headline answers anyone who doubted that work far from the front counted.
A job at home, claimed as a front.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- 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 514561, local id 44-PA-1035), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514561 · 44-PA-1035
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 514561, 44-PA-1035): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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