Be with him at every mail call

United States Second World War poster issued by the U S Army Recruiting Publicity Bureau advocating the use of Vmail. Vmail was a form of encoding letters into film, then shrunk in order to avoid heavy and bulky conventional letters and postage. The central image is an attractive woman wearing a pink shirt who has looked up from her letter writing to smile at the viewer. Behind her GI Soldiers receive mail at the front line. The title text in the same pink as her shirt is superimposed over the image at the top of the poster and the rest of the text in white is along the bottom. The Recruiting Publicity Bureau of the U.S Army seal appears in the lower right corner. Lejaren Hiller (Lejaren à Hiller) (1880 - 1969), was an accomplished American illustrator and photographer. Born John Hiller, he changed his name to Lejaren à Hiller when he moved from Milwaukee to New York City. He studied painting, illustration, industrial design and advertising at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1902. By the early 1900s his attention turned to photography and he was widely regarded as the "creator of American photographic illustration". Hiller was known for dramatically staged tableaux. From 1927-50 he was commissioned by Davis & Geck to produce the prints for a series of historic advertisements entitled “Sutures in Ancient Surgery,” and published in 1944 as “Surgery through the Ages”. Hiller also created a series of photographic posters for the US Armed Forces during the Second World War.