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First Aid Doesn't Mean Delay

Poster
1942 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Two colour offset lithograph health and safety posters printed either side of a single sheet.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • First Aid Doesn't Mean Delay (generic title)
  • Replace Guards (generic title)
Materials and techniques
printing
Brief description
Two colour offset lithograph health and safety posters printed either side of a single sheet. One designed by Grace Lydia Golden and the other by Pat Keely. Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service during the Second World War, Great Britain, 1942.
Physical description
Two colour offset lithograph health and safety posters printed either side of a single sheet.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.2cm
  • Width: 50.8cm
Dimensions taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Credit line
Given by the Ministry of Information
Production
This object is one sheet with two different colour offset lithograph poster designs, by separate artists, printed on either side.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Other number
Collection
Accession number
E.2155-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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