It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Apply to your nearest Navy recruiting station or office of naval officer procurement / John Falter, USNR. – Vintage Wall Art
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(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 It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Apply to your nearest Navy recruiting station or office of naval officer procurement / John Falter, USNR., a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Apply to your nearest Navy recruiting station or office of naval officer procurement / John Falter, USNR.
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It's a woman's war too!" urges the text across this 1942 color lithograph by illustrator John Falter, who designed it to recruit women into the Navy's WAVES, the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Congress created the program that summer, and it let women serve in shore and administrative posts so that more men could go to sea. Falter's bright, confident figure in uniform reflects the wartime push to present military service as a patriotic duty open to women. The poster also shows how recruiting in the early 1940s shifted from appeals aimed only at men toward a broader national call.
| Created / published | [1942] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Lithographs Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J7. 1942. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 292. |
| Subjects | United States.--Naval Reserve.--Women's Reserve--Recruiting & enlistment--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel. Women--Military service--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,154 × 1,467 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216000 |
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