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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
Make a Date with Uncle Sam: Enlist with the Coast Guard SPARS
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · U.S. Coast Guard, Women's Reserve (SPARS), 1942–1945
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 Coast Guard recruiting poster for the SPARS, dated between 1942 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-222 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The SPARS were signed into law in November 1942 as the Coast Guard Women's Reserve, named from the motto Semper Paratus.
What to notice
Enlistment framed as a date, and the date is with Uncle Sam: the headline speaks in the language of a dance card.
A dance card, signed by the Coast Guard.
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 · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Service
- Women’s services
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Coast Guard, Women's Reserve (SPARS), 1942–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513664, local id 44-PA-222), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513664 · 44-PA-222
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 513664, 44-PA-222): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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