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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 · Over There
Wanted: 25,000 Student Nurses, U.S. Student Nurse Reserve
Milton Herbert Bancroft (born 1867) · Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense, 1918
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 colour lithograph Milton Herbert Bancroft drew for the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, printed by the John H. Eggers Co. of New York in 1918, 103 by 64 cm.
Why it matters
The Woman's Committee raised the U.S. Student Nurse Reserve in the summer of 1918, asking for 25,000 young women to train as nurses. The Library of Congress dates the sheet to 1917; the Reserve it names fixes it to 1918, and the Atlas files it there.
What to notice
A nurse with her right hand raised to her heart, under the number the Reserve asked for.
A pledge, taken with a hand on the heart.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Milton Herbert Bancroft (born 1867)
- Printer / house
- John H. Eggers Co., New York
- Campaign
- Women at War · Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 91483205 · POS - US .B36, no. 2 (C size) [P&P]
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. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923). Date corrected from the record's [1917] to 1918: the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense recruited the U.S. Student Nurse Reserve in the summer of 1918.
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