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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
Working Mothers: Your Schools Can Help
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of War Information, 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 poster for working mothers, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-2466 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The government leaned on commercial advertising to bring women into the factories, and once they were there the question of their children followed; this sheet answers it with the schools.
What to notice
A sheet that offers help instead of asking for it, addressed to women already at work.
The schoolroom, enlisted for the working mother.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Women at War · Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, 1943
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 516193, local id 44-PA-2466), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 516193 · 44-PA-2466
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 516193, 44-PA-2466): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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