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Be a trained nurse – Historic Reproduction

Be a trained nurse, [1917 or 1918] — vintage poster
Be a trained nurse, [1917 or 1918]. Vintage poster from the World War I collection.

(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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Titled *Be a trained nurse*, this poster asks women to train for a skilled career rather than simply buy bonds or conserve food. Its record places it in New York State and dates it to about 1917 or 1918, when the United States was drawing many nurses into military service and the Red Cross, while civilian hospitals struggled with staff shortages. Hospital training schools of the period gave women a route into paid, respected work, and posters like this one linked that opportunity to the war effort. Its subject headings on economic and industrial aspects suggest that the war changed women's education and employment at home as much as it affected the fighting overseas.

Created / published[1917 or 1918]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 54 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920.
Notes34-1146-20 G.L. Co.
SubjectsWorld War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Nurses--1910-1920. Medical education--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Women--Education--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,825 × 4,731 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference1257_Be_a_trained_nurse_1917

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