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Description: | Concept: civilian effort, health / safety, civilian personnel, workers, industry, cartoons, humorous, women / womens work, costume / fashion Description: whole: the five images occupy the majority, each held within a narrow black border. The title and text are separate and placed along the top edge, in red, and bottom edge, in black. Further text is integrated across the images, in red outlined black, and in black. All set against a white background. image the first image shows the character of Percy Vere, proposing on one knee to Polly, a blond female worker. The second image shows Polly admiring her engagement ring, whilst operating a piece of machinery. In the third image, her hair has caught in the machine, and Percy runs to her aid. In the fourth image, Polly's blond hair lies tangled in the machine, revealed as a wig covering her own short hair. The final image shows Percy demanding the ring back. text (No. 17) PERCY VERE by Mendoza PERCY LOVES POLLY KEEP YOUR EYE on the JOB KEEP IT UNDER YOUR HAT LOOSE CURLS ARE DANGEROUS TUCK THEM IN [KE]EP [YO]UR EYE [on] the [JO]B RINGS AND BRACELETS CAUSE ACCIDENTS PERCY LOVES POLLY [obscured] Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, Terminal House, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1. MLM/194 Printed by LOXLEY BROS. LTD. Object: wig, industrial machine, ring | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Mendoza Printer: Loxley Brothers Ltd, London and Sheffield Publisher/Sponsor: Ministry of Labour and National Service; Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=3370... | Go to resource |
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