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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.
Join the Navy Nurse Corps
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Join the Navy Nurse Corps

Artifact IDMO 2005.13.17.36
Object Type Poster
Artist (American illustrator and poster artist, 1906 - 1988)
Issuing Body (American, founded 1908)
Dateca. 1943
Mediumpaper, ink
Dimensionsoverall H 31 in x W 20 1/2 in (78.7 cm x 52.1 cm )
Physical DescriptionA color poster featuring a 3/4 illustration of a woman dressed in a Navy Nurse Corps uniform against a pink and white background. The artist’s facsimile signature is along the right side of the image: Jon Whitcomb. Text below the image reads: “JOIN THE NAVY NURSE CORPS / APPLY AT YOUR RED CROSS RECRUITING STATION.”

A union bug is in the lower left corner of the poster. Printed in small letters in the lower right corner is: POSTER 710.
Additional Details
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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