The Women Of France We Owe Them Houses Of Cheer
YMCA poster printed for the United War Work Campaign from WWI. Poster shows Americans the extraordinary fight that the people of France had gone through for, at the time, 4 years. The poster promotes the work carried out by French women during wartime. Their hair bound up, hard at work in a French foundry, two pouring molten metal, the third forging a piece of machinery. This was usually men's work. Women for the first time were able to work in a male dominated industry, and would win the right to vote the next year.
Measures 28.25x40”
Condition- excellent
YMCA poster printed for the United War Work Campaign from WWI. Poster shows Americans the extraordinary fight that the people of France had gone through for, at the time, 4 years. The poster promotes the work carried out by French women during wartime. Their hair bound up, hard at work in a French foundry, two pouring molten metal, the third forging a piece of machinery. This was usually men's work. Women for the first time were able to work in a male dominated industry, and would win the right to vote the next year.
Measures 28.25x40”
Condition- excellent
YMCA poster printed for the United War Work Campaign from WWI. Poster shows Americans the extraordinary fight that the people of France had gone through for, at the time, 4 years. The poster promotes the work carried out by French women during wartime. Their hair bound up, hard at work in a French foundry, two pouring molten metal, the third forging a piece of machinery. This was usually men's work. Women for the first time were able to work in a male dominated industry, and would win the right to vote the next year.
Measures 28.25x40”
Condition- excellent
