Coal is vital!

Accession Number ARTV06690
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 36.1 x 24.6 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description lithograph
Maker Unknown
Commonwealth Coal Commission
Unknown
Date made 1944; c 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

patriotism; poster issued by the Commonwealth Coal Commission urgin restraint in use of gas and electricity, thus saving coal (gas and electricity were produced exclusively from coal at the time), (General Hideki Tojo was Japan's wartime Prime Minister, and had previously been Japan's ambassador to the USA)