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As America entered World War I, it also entered the modern age. To encourage support for the war effort, both the United States government and private organizations created a host of advertisements - window cards, subway car cards, and 700 poster designs. More than 20 million placards hung in public spaces and workplaces citizens could not escape their patriotic message. In this exhibition, the National Heritage Museum presents a selection of the arresting advertisements that speak to the different and expanded roles of women played in World War I.

"For Every Fighter A Woman Worker" features a selection of 20 posters drawn from the Museum's collection. Highlights of the show include works by James Montgomery Flagg, J.C. Leyendecker, and Howard Chandler Christy. While these well-known illustrators portrayed romanticized images of women, they also showed the ways women contributed to the war effort as inspiration, as workers, and as supporters.