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Take your family to. . .
Poster
July 1915 (published)
July 1915 (published)
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A poster showing a little girl with her arms full of teddybears, dolls and a golliwog doll.
Object details
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| Title | Take your family to. . . (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Agnes Richardson. "Take your family to..." Poster for the 2nd August Bank Holiday, 1915 |
| Physical description | A poster showing a little girl with her arms full of teddybears, dolls and a golliwog doll. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.' |
| Object history | The original golliwog was a central character in a series of books by Bertha and Florence Upton published between 1895 and 1909. Florence, the illustrator of the stories, based the golliwog on a doll she had acquired in the US in the 1880s. The appearance of this doll was influenced by the Blackface performance tradition. From the late 19th century until the 1960s, the golliwog flourished as a toy. Its image featured on toys, games, textiles and ceramics and was also used by food companies. From the 1970s the golliwog’s popularity began to wane as many British people felt that it promoted racial stereotypes. |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1915, London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1916. |
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| Accession number | E.4291-1915 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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