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Description: | Concept: empire / commonwealth, civilian morale, civilian personnel, workers, agriculture / food, women / womens work, costume / fashion, supplies / provisions Description: whole: the image occupies the upper half. The title is separate and positioned across the centre, in green and in burgundy. The main text is separate and placed in the lower half, in black and in red. Further text is separate and positioned across the top edge, in khaki, held within a red inset. All set against a white background, and held within a red, white and khaki border. image: a three-quarter length depiction of two Indian women, dressed in saris, picking tea in a plantation. They carry wicker baskets, held in place by a strap around their forehead. Two more female agricultural workers are visible in the background. text: THE EMPIRE'S STRENGTH Batty DO YOU KNOW THAT INDIA supplies all the jute for making sacks and sandbags: that more than half Britain's needs of livestock foods come from India as well as tea, rice, hides, skins, cotton and manganese. THESE ARE THE SINEWS OF WAR PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY LOWE and BRYDONE PRINTERS LTD., LONDON, N.W.10. 51-6272 Object: basket | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Batty Printer: Lowe and Brydone Printers Ltd, London NW10 Publisher/Sponsor: HMSO | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5135... | Go to resource |
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