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Poster

c. 1943 (made)
Artist/Maker
HMSO (issued)
Austin Cooper (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Colour lithograph text poster reading: ON SERVICE ON SERVICE ON SERVICE over 52,000 officers of the Post Office are with the Armed Forces or on full-time Civil Defence duties. THOSE WHO REMAIN Counter Clerks, Engineers, Postmen, Telegraphists, Telephonists, Sorters and all others are doing thier best to maintain the traditions of the POST OFFICE.

Lettered across the bottom of the sheet: TYPOGRAPHIC ARRANGEMENT BY AUSTIN COOPER public service is their watchword P.R.D. 246 PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY ST. MICHAEL'S PRESS LTD LONDON. 51-406

Object details

Categories
Posters
War
Object type
Poster
Brief description
"On Service"(text only poster) by Austin Cooper, UK, early 1940s.
Physical description
Colour lithograph text poster reading: ON SERVICE ON SERVICE ON SERVICE over 52,000 officers of the Post Office are with the Armed Forces or on full-time Civil Defence duties. THOSE WHO REMAIN Counter Clerks, Engineers, Postmen, Telegraphists, Telephonists, Sorters and all others are doing thier best to maintain the traditions of the POST OFFICE.

Lettered across the bottom of the sheet: TYPOGRAPHIC ARRANGEMENT BY AUSTIN COOPER public service is their watchword P.R.D. 246 PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY ST. MICHAEL'S PRESS LTD LONDON. 51-406
Credit line
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1004-2004

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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