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Description: | Paintings, engravings and prints relating to the operations of the British Post Office, plus original art works commissioned by the Post Office, eg for stamp and poster designs.
In the early 1930s the Post Office started to use advertising posters. Large poster hoardings were first used in 1932 followed by special designs created for experimental use on mail vans - the origin of the 'strip poster' used today. Following Sir Stephen Tallents' appointment in 1933 as public relations officer, leading artists, such as Macdonald Gill and Graham Sutherland, were commissioned to work on poster designs. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 020 7239 2576 | Telephone: | 020 7239 2570 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5101 | Go to resource |
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