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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Be a Cadet Nurse
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Be a Cadet Nurse

Object numberMO 2005.13.17.8.5
Name Poster
Artist (American illustrator and poster artist, 1906 - 1988)
Maker (American, founded 1861)
Issuing Body (American, founded 1889)
Issuing Body (American, 1939 - 1949)
Issuing Body (American, 1942 - 1945)
Date1944
Mediumpaper, ink
Dimensionsoverall H 40 in x W 28 1/4 in (101.6 cm x 71.8 cm )
DescriptionA color poster featuring head and bust portrait illustrations of two young women, one slightly behind the other. Both women are shown wearing uniforms, one dressed in a blue military-style Cadet Nurse Corps uniform and the other dressed in a white nursing uniform. The artist’s facsimile signature is along the left shoulder of the front portrait: Jon Whitcomb. Gray, red, and black on gray text below the illustration reads: BE A / Cadet Nurse / THE GIRL WITH A FUTURE / A Lifetime Education FREE / FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES WHO QUALIFY. An additional blue box with white text has the following instructions: For information / go to your local hospital or write / U. S. CADET NURSE CORPS / Box 88, New York 8, N. Y.

Additional text along the bottom edge of the poster reads: U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE • FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY / NE POSTER No. 3 / U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-599074 / DISTRIBUTED BY OWI.
Additional Details
Custodial History NoteDonated to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum by the Adriance Memorial Library.
Credit LineGift of the Adriance Memorial Library
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesOriginal Posters from World War I and World War II (National Archives Identifier 739394)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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