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America will be as strong as her women.
Date: [1938]
Creator: Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy, 1889-1977.
Description: Charcoal sketch of a woman holding up a young girl.
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College women in the WAC.
Date: [1944]
Creator: United States. Army. Women's Army Corps.
Description: Poster of three photographs with text descriptions, each showing three young women (seniors from the Vassar College Class of 1944) involved in various Women's Army Corps recruitment activities: trying on a WAC hat, signing up for WAC, and pledging the oath of enlistment. The young women wear cardigan sweaters, skirts, and loafers. Older women in WAC uniforms appear in two of the photographs. The three students who appear in the photos are: Marjorie Maddox, Maud Banks, and Joan Trumbull. The two servicewomen are: Private First Class Gladys A. Francis, Major Lucille Van Bolt, and Second Lieutenant Elizabeth M. Whitmore.
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"Man for man, America's workers and America's soldiers are the best in the world! We helped them build our nation -- we'll help them defend it." Produce for victory!
Date: 1942
Creator: Sheldon-Claire Co.
Description: A young woman works on a machine part. Her reddish hair is coiffed and she wears a neatly pressed blue work uniform.
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"My girl's a WOW" : woman ordnance worker.
Date: 1943
Creator: Treidler, Adolph, 1886-1981.
Description: Color illustration of a helmeted soldier, smiling and holding a black and white picture of a woman. The woman wears a kerchief on her head and a pin on her white shirt (probably an I.D. badge) that has a woman's face and a number (14002) on it.
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Women in the war : we can't win without them.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. War Manpower Commission.
Description: Photograph of a woman factory worker wearing overalls or apron of printed fabric, riveting a weapon.
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Be a cadet nurse : the girl with a future.
Date: 1944
Creator: Whitcomb, Jon.
Description: Color poster of two women in cadet nurse uniforms (probably two views of the same woman). The woman on the left wears a military-style uniform with blue jacket and cap. The woman on the right wears a white nurse's uniform with a nurse's cap. Both women are wearing cadet nurse shoulder patches and caduceus (medical symbol) pins.
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This is our war-- : join the WAAC, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, United States Army.
Date: [1942]
Creator:
Description: The golden-orange background shows a faint outline of Pallas Athene's head. Superimposed on this background is a large black & white photograph of the head and shoulders of a woman in a WAAC uniform.
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A lifetime education free for high school graduates who qualify : U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
Date: 1945
Creator: Ross, Alexander, 1909-
Description: A woman in a gray military uniform is shown in the right foreground. In the left background are two young women in dresses, carrying books and looking at the uniformed woman.
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Enlist in a proud profession! : join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
Date: [1943]
Creator: Edmundson, Carolyn Moorhead, 1906-
Description: Image of a woman in a gray dress military uniform with a "CADET NURSE" sleeve patch. She has light-colored hair and wears a beret.
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So he can fight!
Date: [1943]
Creator: United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division.
Description: On the left side of poster is a large, orange, image of a combat soldier carrying a rifle. In much smaller scale in the foreground is a gray image of the back of a WAAC, waving at the soldier. In the center of the poster is text describing the contributions of women in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. On the right side and bottom center are black & white photographs showing WAAC's performing various tasks. In the lower right corner is an unsigned cartoon showing a line of combat soldiers fording a river with their rifles held over their heads. The last soldier in line is a WAAC carrying her typewriter over her head.
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