Join the Women's Land Army

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number ARTV05279
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 37.4 cm x 24 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description offset lithograph on paper
Maker Women's Land Army
H & G Pty Ltd
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra
Date made c.1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian Second World War Women's Land Army (WLA) recruitment poster. The poster depicts a smiling, healthy young woman in the foreground wearing WLA uniform holding a stick in her right hand. In the background is an idealised rural scene possibly a dairy farm with cows and rolling hills. The title text is superimposed over this in the top half in red.