I'll Have the Local Brand

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number ARTV02324
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 75 x 50 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description offset lithograph on paper
Maker Unknown
Department of War Organisation of Industry
Place made Australia
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

This Australian Second World War poster was produced by Department of War Organsiation of Industry, advising that it was preferred that people use local items, rather than those that had been imported. By allowing for this provision, interstate (and indeed international) traffic routes would be freer to allow war supplies.

The poster depicts a harbour with a docked ship and three M3 Lee tanks in the background, with a fourth M3 Lee in the right foreground. In the left margin, two women are depicted shopping as an example of people buying the 'local brand.'

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