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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
WAAC: Silence Means Security
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · War Department, Adjutant General's Office, WAAC Security Poster, 1943
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 WAAC Security Poster issued by the War Department through the Adjutant General's Office and printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1943, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-2280.
Why it matters
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was created on 15 May 1942 and became the Women's Army Corps on 1 July 1943, so a sheet that says WAAC belongs to its first fourteen months. The printer's line narrows this one to 1943.
What to notice
The imprint reads W.D., A.G.O. WAAC Security Poster, U.S. Government Printing Office 1943, the corps' initials leading the title.
A new corps, sworn first to say nothing.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Printer / house
- U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington
- Campaign
- Careless Talk · Women at War
- Service
- Women’s services
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Department, Adjutant General's Office, WAAC Security Poster, 1943
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 515987, local id 44-PA-2280), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 515987 · 44-PA-2280
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 515987, 44-PA-2280): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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