Changing Picture of Docklands
Poster
late 1980s (made)
late 1980s (made)
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Landscape poster, consisting of a black and white photomontage of a courtyard surrounded by small single-level houses, and a tall ship between high-rise buildings in the background. The courtyard is full of men holding placards for a 'Dock Labourers Strike! Relief Fund', and a man in a striped waistcoat and boater hat stands in the middle of the crowd, gesturing with his left hand. A strip of the photograph has been overlaid with a drawing or engraving showing the interiors of the houses and ship. Goods are being unloaded from the ship into the neighbouring warehouses; in the houses families do various jobs connected to social progress and welfare. The house on the left has a poster for the 'Nautical Progress Society', the middle house has posters for the East London Federation of Suffragettes and free medical treatment for poor people, and a placard for the Worker's Dreadnought advertising a planned dock strike, and in the house on the left a woman is sewing a banner reading 'Unity', while another woman holds a poster for a day nursery and clinic for working women. The caption of the series of photographs is 'The people of Docklands have always had to fight to make the best of appalling conditions - and to change them.'.
Object details
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Title | Changing Picture of Docklands (series title) |
Materials and techniques | Poster, printed from a photomontage and laminated in plastic |
Brief description | Poster made by the Docklands Community Poster Project, 'Changing Picture of Docklands' series, ca. 1985 |
Physical description | Landscape poster, consisting of a black and white photomontage of a courtyard surrounded by small single-level houses, and a tall ship between high-rise buildings in the background. The courtyard is full of men holding placards for a 'Dock Labourers Strike! Relief Fund', and a man in a striped waistcoat and boater hat stands in the middle of the crowd, gesturing with his left hand. A strip of the photograph has been overlaid with a drawing or engraving showing the interiors of the houses and ship. Goods are being unloaded from the ship into the neighbouring warehouses; in the houses families do various jobs connected to social progress and welfare. The house on the left has a poster for the 'Nautical Progress Society', the middle house has posters for the East London Federation of Suffragettes and free medical treatment for poor people, and a placard for the Worker's Dreadnought advertising a planned dock strike, and in the house on the left a woman is sewing a banner reading 'Unity', while another woman holds a poster for a day nursery and clinic for working women. The caption of the series of photographs is 'The people of Docklands have always had to fight to make the best of appalling conditions - and to change them.'. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'The people of Docklands have always had to fight to make the best of appalling conditions - and to change them.' |
Credit line | Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop |
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Bibliographic reference | From the label text of an exhibition held by the Greenwich Mural Workshop entitled 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-86' |
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Accession number | E.486-2013 |
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Record created | November 20, 2013 |
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