This is a war bond poster published by Abbott Laboratories in support of the Treasury’s Schools at War Program, launched on September 25, 1942. The aim was to encourage American schoolchildren to purchase war stamps and bonds, conserve money and materials for the war effort, and save for personal security. The simple, intimate image of a woman embracing a U.S. soldier represents an emotional and relatable appeal to the viewer, pointing to the toll war takes on ordinary citizens as well as soldiers. It was one of several wartime posters designed by Symeon Shimin, a Russian-born Jewish-American artist who attended art classes at Cooper Union in New York. Early in his career as a commercial artist he painted large-scale poster designs for Hollywood films, among them the original poster for Gone with the Wind (1939); in 1940, under the Works Progress Administration, Shimin completed a painted mural for the Department of Justice titled Contemporary Justice and the Child. After the war, he became a hugely successful children’s book illustrator.