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World War II: American Women's Involvement in the Conflict. Three Off-set Color Lithographic Posters.
Including: Cadet Nurse. The Girl with a Future, illustrated by Jon Whitcomb (1906-1988), NE Poster No. 3 printed by the Government Printing Office, 1944, and distributed by the Office of War Information [OWI], formerly folded; Keep the Home Front Pledge. Pay no more than Ceiling Prices. Pay your Points in full, with illustration by F.G. Cooper (1883-1962) published by U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944, as part of the Food Fights for Freedom campaign to support rationing, formerly folded; [and] Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. Women's Army Corps, Army of the United States, with illustration by Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer (1897-1982), published by the War Department in May of 1944, formerly folded, each poster 27 3/4 x 20 in.
These posters illustrate very different calls for women's participation in the war. Whether acting in the field as a Cadet Nurse, a program that drew more than 50,000 participants throughout the war, enlisting in the Women's Army Corps to serve in a wide variety of capacities, as switchboard operators, mechanics, and weapons repair; to controlling waste at home by rationing food, the government was forced to acknowledge its need of women's intelligence, strength and courage in the conflict.
