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Description: | 'Back Room Boys ... They Also Serve' was a series of posters commissioned by London Transport during the Second World War. The title lends a certain irony to the series, as they all depict women carrying out the vital engineering and maintenance work formerly carried out by men.
The layout, with a central image framed by an illustrated border, is reminiscent of a First World War poster series by Archibald Standish Hartrick. This poster depicts a woman operating a circuit breaker. The illustration in the background shows the main control room at Lots Road Power Station where this job would have been carried out.
Unnecessary travel was discouraged during wartime. London Transport posters moved away from their publicity and advertising role towards a form of wartime propaganda. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport London at War Art and Design | Temporal: | 1942 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Printer : The Baynard Press | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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