1940's Fashion | American Women in Three Wartime Posters

"Victory Waits on Your Fingers"; "Longing Won't Get Him Back Sooner… Get a War Job!"; "We Can Do It!"

Posters

By: Royal Typewriter Company; Lawrence Wilbur; J. Howard Miller

Date: ca. 1942

Source: Royal Typewriter Company; Lawrence Wilbur; J. Howard Miller. "Victory Waits on Your Fingers"; "Longing Won't Get Him Back Sooner… Get a War Job!"; "We Can Do It!" ca. 1942. National Archives and Records Administration, Still Picture Branch, Washington, D.C. Available online at http://archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/its_a... ; website home page: http://www.archives.gov (accessed March 28, 2003).

Introduction

In her influential treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Peter Edes for...