Enlist in a Proud Profession! Join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Painted head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman in a grey Cadet Nurse uniform with red shoulder tabs, looking upward against a blue ground, under the headline 'Enlist in a Proud Profession!'. A blue box offers 'A Lifetime Education - Free!' to those who qualify. The tell for glittering-generalities is the 'proud profession' headline; the uniform and badges lend the standing of a service corps.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency (U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps); artist Edmundson
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, Health, Gender and suffrage
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency (U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-726A (NAID 514214).
Text on the object
Enlist in a Proud Profession! JOIN THE U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS A Lifetime Education- FREE! IF YOU CAN QUALIFY FOR INFORMATION GO TO YOUR LOCAL HOSPITAL OR WRITE U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS, BOX 88, NEW YORK, N.Y. [signature:] Edmundson [imprint:] U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY [patch:] CADET NURSE
