New Arrivals: Poster - Women…our wounded need your care!…Join a hospital company.
Washington DC: Recruiting & Publicity Branch, U.S. Army, 1945. Original lithographed poster, 38"x25". Printed in colors on heavy white poster-stock. Mild creasing along bottom margin (well away from image), else a fresh, unworn example, Near Fine / A-. Unbacked.
Recruiting poster, dated January, 1945, for the medical section of the Women’s Army Corps (WACs). The illustration, excellent but unattributed, depicts a svelte Army nurse in a sharply pleated (and rather fetching) blue uniform - shades of Madison Avenue and the Fifties fashion revolution to come. The WACs provided an important point of entry for women into the post-war professional workforce, expanding their roles beyond traditional palliative nursing duties; the current poster is particularly interesting for its promise of providing skilled technical training in the areas of medical and surgical technology.
