Wanted more Navy nurses--Be a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy / John Falter, USNR. – Historic Reproduction
![Wanted more Navy nurses--Be a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy / John Falter, USNR., [19]44. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0c/0ce65bd16aaf-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Wanted more Navy nurses--Be a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy / John Falter, USNR.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wanted more Navy nurses--Be a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy / John Falter, USNR.
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This color poster by John Falter, a Navy Reserve artist, asks women to become commissioned officers in the Navy Nurse Corps, with the blunt headline "Wanted more Navy nurses." Its 1944 date falls at a point in the war when military hospitals across the Pacific and Atlantic theaters were stretched thin, and recruiting drives like this one aimed to fill that gap. Falter's work for the Navy is notable for putting a clean, polished image of service life in front of a broad public, and this piece shows how wartime recruiting appealed to women to take on professional responsibility.
| Created / published | [19]44. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. J26. 1945. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Women--Military service--1940-1950. Nurses--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,138 × 1,464 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216133 |
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