Danger of Fire from Cigarette Ends

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Artist/Maker	Ministry of Labour and National Service (Commissioned) Cusden, Leonard (maker) Mendoza, Phillip (maker)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Poster issued between 1939 and 1945 warning people of the danger of fire from cigarette ends.

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Danger of Fire from Cigarette Ends (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Photo-chromo lithograph Paper Photo Lithograph
Brief description	'Danger of Fire from Cigarette Ends'. Colour offset lithograph poster, on the back of an alternative poster (see E.2136A-1946). Design by Leonard Cusden. Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service during the Second World War. Great Britain. 1939-1945.
Physical description	Poster issued between 1939 and 1945 warning people of the danger of fire from cigarette ends.
Dimensions	Size of sheet height: 29.25in Size of sheet width: 19in 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.
Credit line	Given by the Ministry of Information
Subjects depicted	Cigarettes Fire
Bibliographic reference	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.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2136B-1946

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Record created	July 12, 2011
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1226613/danger-of-fire-from-cigarette-poster-cusden-leonard/

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