Stenographers! Washington needs you! [graphic] /
Still, Roy Hull, artist.
still image
War posters American 1910-1920. gmgpc
Lithographs Color 1910-1920. gmgpc
N[ew] Y[ork] : Prudential Litho. Co.,
[ca. 1918]
eng
Poster shows a woman seated at a desk with a stenotype machine; she is turned away from the viewer, looking at the silhouette of a soldier and the dome of U.S. Capitol.
Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Roy Hull Still Enlists the Help of Stenographers. In the shadow of the U.S. Capitol building, a soldier shares the stage with a stenographer, both essential cogs in the war effort. The United States needed more than soldiers to fight the war, issuing repeated calls for secretaries and stenographers. Another example in the Library's World War I poster collection claims a shortage of 5,000 stenographers and offers a yearly salary of $1,100. Nearly sixty years after the war ended, the female stenographers who worked with the American Expeditionary Forces in France were granted veteran status by a 1977 act of Congress.
Title from item.
Caption continues: For information apply or write to the nearest U.S. Employment Office.
Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 2016 - May 2017.
World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States.
Women--Employment--1910-1920.
Office workers--1910-1920.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.50014
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09932
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