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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
This Is Trench Foot. Prevent It! Keep Feet Dry and Clean
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · War Department, 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 health poster issued by the War Department, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-2091, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
Trench foot, the injury of cold, wet feet kept too long in boots, had crippled armies in the First World War, and the War Department taught its men to prevent it.
What to notice
Three sentences in a row: a name, an order, and the remedy, dry and clean.
The war, fought one dry sock at a time.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Department, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 515785, local id 44-PA-2091), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 515785 · 44-PA-2091
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 515785, 44-PA-2091): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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