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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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