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Bones wanted...
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd.
British poster issued to encourage citizens to save bones in support of the war effort. This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.ARTV02414
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Britain Expects That: You Too, This Day, Will Do Your Duty
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Maker: C F The Admiralty Chromoworks Ltd H.M. Stationery Office
British Second World War poster highlighting the national (patriotic) expectation that each Briton 'do [their] duty'. The poster depicts a flag-bearing signaler in the upper section, with a bodiless s...ARTV02087
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Britain is pledged to smash Japan
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Maker: J. Howitt & Son Ltd.
Propaganda was essential for boosting morale particularly during the tail end of the war. During the final strikes against Japan, British forces operated as an integral part of the American task force...ARTV00169
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Britain's Air Offensive
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Maker: Her Majesty's Stationary Office
This British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office to help spread word of the successful Allied bombing campaign on German territory. The poster shows most major citie...ARTV02198
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Britain's oil has to be imported...
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Maker: Ministry of Fuel and Power W.R. Royle & Son Ltd.
Second World War thrift poster encouraging the British people to use less oil. This is to reduce the pressure on importation, enabling better logistical management for the merchant seamen. This item ...ARTV02427
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British Army Exhibition
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British Second World War poster promoting a 'British Army Exhibition'. During the Second World War the Ministry of Information held many exhibitions around Britain to display to the people on the home...ARTV02335
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British weapons to defeat Hitler
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office LONDON : H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE, [N.D.] (READING : GREENSLADE & CO. (READING) LTD.) Greenslade & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting a tank with a palm tree behind it in the distance. The tank is firing. Two smaller depictions of tanks with an elephant in one, and a horse in the other, depi...ARTV02317
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British weapons to defeat Hitler
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office H.M. Stationary Office Greenslade & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting military vessels; the battleship, a cruiser and a destroyer. A small mass of land in the background has a single palm tree. The poster celebrates British mil...ARTV02318
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"..but for Heaven's sake don't say I told you." Careless talk costs lives
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Maker: [Great Britain S.N., N.D.]
British Second World War poster depicts a man in a blue coat and yellow pants talking in a red phone booth, imploring the listener not to tell anyone that he had told them. The image is surrounded wit...ARTV07196
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But - Russia needs the tools NOW!
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Maker: the Kukryniksy Ministry of Supply Unknown
British war poster issued by the Ministry of Supply. It features a reproduction of a Soviet poster by the Kukryniksy initially published by Iskusstvo in June 1941 in an edition of 2000,000. The image ...ARTV02334
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Buy Your Savings Here: This Is Thanksgiving Week
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Maker: National Savings Committee, London and Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh The Whitwell Press Ltd.
British Second World War poster promoting national savings and the sale of savings/bond certificates. This poster was issued on 'Thanksgiving Week' - various weeks given this title around September an...ARTV02114
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Captain Alan Lennox-Short will speak here...
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Information
This British Second World War poster was a generic poster produced by the Minsitry of Information to be distributed to different locations where Captain Alan Lennox-Short was speaking. Captain Lenno...ARTV02194
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Careless talk costs lives: "Be careful what you say & where you say it."
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Maker: Ministry of Information Unknown
British Second World War cautionary poster issued by the Ministry of Information. It depicts two men speaking at a bar, which is made up of stylised Hitler faces. The image is in the top half of the p...ARTV07201
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Careless talk costs lives: ".....but of course it musn't go any further!"
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Maker: Ministry of Information Unknown
British Second World War cautionary poster issued by the Ministry of Information. It depicts two men talking in a railway carriage with Herman Goering and Adolf Hitler sitting in the luggage racks ove...ARTV04062
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Careless talk costs lives: ".....but of course it musn't go any further!"
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Maker: Ministry of Information
British Second World War cautionary poster issued by the Ministry of Information. It depicts two men talking in a railway carriage with Herman Goering and Adolf Hitler sitting in the luggage racks ove...ARTV02450
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Careless talk costs lives: "Don't forget that walls have ears!"
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Maker: Ministry of Information
British Second World War cautionary poster depicts two women having tea. The wallpaper is a repeat pattern of Adolf Hitler's head. This one of a series of 'careless talk costs lives' posters by Cyril ...ARTV02448
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Careless talk costs lives: "...strictly between these four walls!'
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Maker: Ministry of Information
British Second World War cautionary poster issued by the Ministry of Information. It depicts two men talking in a Club, in front of a portrait of King Charles II with the face of Adolf Hitler. The ima...ARTV02449
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Careless talk costs lives: Strictly between you and me...
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Maker: British Government
British Second World War poster depicts two men in discussion with Adolf Hitler listening through an open window. This one is part of a series of 'careless talk costs lives' posters by Cyril Kenneth B...ARTV02447
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Careless talk costs lives: " You never know who's listening."
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Maker: Ministry of Information Unknown
British Second World War cautionary poster issued by the Ministry of Information. It depicts two women talking on a train, with Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering listening from the seat behind them. Th...ARTV07203
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Caricature of Major Walter Lionel Ekin Smyth
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Maker: Milner, Amies
Depicts a caricature of Major Walter Lionel Ekin Smyth, Manchester Regiment, in profile, wearing a red mess jacket and smoking a pipe. Major Walter Lionel Ekin Smyth (b. South Australia, 1909?) attend...ART92751