The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW / Adolph Treidler." – Vintage Wall Art
![The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW / Adolph Treidler.", [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b2/b22ac210874d-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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Step back in time with The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW / Adolph Treidler.", a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The title plays on the phrase "the girl he left behind," turning a sentimental soldier's image into a joke about a man who is still stuck at home while the woman in the poster is the one doing the work. Printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1943, the poster belongs to the wartime push to recruit women into ordnance plants, where they built and inspected weapons and ammunition as men went overseas. Adolph Treidler, a commercial illustrator, drew it in the bold, streamlined style that wartime agencies favored for quick recognition on factory walls and transit cards. Its humor was meant to make war work feel confident and even a little playful.
| Created / published | [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : offset lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Offset lithographs Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J7. 1943. Promotional goal: U.S. J44.J2. 1943. |
| Subjects | Women--Employment--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Women. Ordnance industry--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,206 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193292 |
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