Joan of Arc Saved France
Poster image by Haskell Coffin
75 cm x 50 cm
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Savings Stamps, 1918
With this famous World War I image, graphic artist Haskell Coffin urged the "Women of America [to] Save [Their] Country," just as Joan of Arc had saved France. American women answered the call, serving both at home and abroad in the First World War. More than 25,000 American women went to Europe as soldiers, sailors, Red Cross and Salvation Army workers, and in other volunteer positions. The role of women as participants, observers, victims, and protestors of World War I is well documented in letters, diaries, published accounts, photographs, and artifacts. Their role also has been permanently fixed in the popular imagination through the vivid art of period posters like this one.
See this object in detail
permalink