The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An Australian poster issued after the First World War to promote a post-war reconstruction campaign to raise fund for returned soldiers, and also designed to help Australia recover from the crippling costs of the war effort. The poster was authorised by Captain Dash, the Chief organiser of the New South Wales Diggers' Loan campaign. While this poster was published by a New South Wales group, it may have been printed in Melbourne, as J.J. Miller is a Melbourne printer.
The poster is text based with no images to promote the Diggers' Loan. The title is printed in red and blue ink, and occupies the top half of the poster. The remaining text occupies the bottom half and reads: 'To meet her obligations to the soldiers it is you duty to subscribe!''.
Text based poster containing no images. The poster promotes subscriptions to the Diggers' Loan. Title is printed in red and blue ink, and occupies the top half of the poster. The remaining text occu
Australian post-war poster listing the names and addresses of prominent citizens who ran the N.S.W. 'Diggers' loan' committee. The 'Diggers' Loan' followed the earlier Peace Loans to recoup the cost o
Australian post-war poster advertising the 'Diggers' Loan'. This loan functioned along the same lines of the War Loans, in that people 'lent' the government money in return for interest. The poster
Australian poster issued by the Commonwealth Government to promote subscriptions to the Diggers' Loan. The poster features a white map of Australia in the upper right corner set against a red backgrou
Depicts an idealised image of a masculine Digger in a slouch hat positioned against a map of Australia. . The title and text sits above and below the image and is in white letters against a dark red
Depicts an idealised image of a masculine Digger in a slouch hat positioned against a map of Australia. . The title and text sits above and below the image and is in white letters against a dark red