Women: There's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now! See your U.S. Employment Service / Vernon Grant for OWI. – Historic Reproduction
![Women: There's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now! See your U.S. Employment Service / Vernon Grant for OWI., [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bf/bf9965a53bee-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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Women: There's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now! See your U.S. Employment Service / Vernon Grant for OWI. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Women: There's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now! See your U.S. Employment Service / Vernon Grant for OWI.
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Vernon Grant's silkscreen poster was produced for the Office of War Information and printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1944, when the country's war factories and offices were badly short of workers. Its slogan, "There's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now!", appeals directly to women and sends them to the U.S. Employment Service to find jobs. Posters like this one were part of a broad national push that drew millions of women into defense plants, shipyards and clerical posts that had long been closed to them. The poster's bold color and direct address show how wartime propaganda tried to make paid work look like patriotic duty.
| Created / published | [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | War posters 1940-1950.Screen prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Subjects | Women--Employment--United States--1940-1950. War work--United States--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,148 × 1,463 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219244 |
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