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EPHEMERA

Title

'We're both needed to serve the guns!'

Object Name

Poster

Maker

Chorley and Pickersgill Limited (Primary maker)

Date Made

18/1914
18/1914

Place Made

Leeds and London

Description

First World War recruitment poster; 'We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions!'; published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London; poster no.85c. Picture of a soldier and civilian factory worker shaking hands, focused on possible resentment by soldiers of 'slackers' at home and instilling fresh patriotic energy into munitions.

Materials

paper

Place Collected


Date Collected

1973
1973

Catalogue Number

BELUM.O457.1973

Copyright

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