Our job to clothe the men who work and fight Accession Number: ARTV01064

Description

Australian Second World War poster one of a series issued by the Department of Information, Advertising Division to emphasis the importance of industrial production on the home front to the overall war effort. The series links images of men fighting at the front with images of women at work. This poster depicts a woman holding two piles of new clothes in the centre of the poster; beneath her are two images, one of men operating machinery in a machine shop, the other of soldiers in the jungle. The title text is positioned centre top printed in blue and in the centre in red. In the lower left, within the industry image is a small image of a sinking ship with warning 'Don't talk, idle gossip may sink a clothing ship'.

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Accession Number
ARTV01064
Printer
Unknown
Artist
Unknown
Publisher
Department of Information, Advertising Division
Classification
Art
Object Type
Poster
Physical Description
Medium: colour photolithograph with block printing on paper
Measurement
Sheet: 73.8 cm x 47.9 cm
Medium
colour photolithograph with block printing on paper
Date Made
1943
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
presented in 1946
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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