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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
Women! They Can't Do Any More, but You Can. Join the WAC
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Women's Army Corps, United States Army, 1943–1945
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 for the Women's Army Corps, from July 1943 or later, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-2446 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The Women's Army Corps took its name on 1 July 1943, when the auxiliary was converted, so the sheet dates from that summer or later.
What to notice
The they of the headline is left unnamed, and the sentence turns on its own pronouns, from they to you.
A sentence that turns on the dead.
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
- Service
- Women’s services
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Women's Army Corps, United States Army, 1943–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 516173, local id 44-PA-2446), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 516173 · 44-PA-2446
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 516173, 44-PA-2446): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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