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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Nurses Are Needed Now! Army Nurse Corps
Harry Steele Savage (1898-1970) · Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, 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 recruiting poster Harry Steele Savage made for the Army Nurse Corps, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-204 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The Office of War Information, which ran from June 1942 to September 1945, carried calls like this one through radio, newspapers, posters, photographs and film. Savage was an illustrator chiefly of books for children and young adults.
What to notice
The word now at the end of the headline, an urgent demand from an artist who mostly drew for children's books.
A children's illustrator, drafted to call the nurses.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Harry Steele Savage (1898-1970)
- Campaign
- Enlist · Women at War
- Service
- Women’s services
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513647, local id 44-PA-204), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513647 · 44-PA-204
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 513647, 44-PA-204): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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