Train to be a nurses aide Phone your boro Civilian Defense Volunteer Office. – Vintage Poster
(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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Train to be a nurses aide Phone your boro Civilian Defense Volunteer Office.
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Among the many wartime posters in the Work Projects Administration collection, this 1941 silkscreen urges New Yorkers to train as nurses aides by telephoning their borough Civilian Defense Volunteer Office. Its direct call to action reflects how the city prepared for possible air attack before the United States entered the war in December 1941. Volunteers in these roles were trained to help in hospitals and first aid stations, work that civil defense planners expected would be needed in an emergency. The Federal Art Project produced the design under the Work Projects Administration.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Designed by WPA NYC O.P. 165-1-97-56 W.P.I. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945--Civil defense--New York (State). Nurses--New York (State)--1940-1950. Nursing--New York (State)--1940-1950. Women--Employment--New York (State)--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,754 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 752_Train_to_be_a_nurses_ai_1941 |
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