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Description: | As male transport workers were recruited to fight in the First World War, their jobs were often taken up by women.
This poster is from a set of commemorative lithographs published by the Underground in 1918. They celebrate the contribution its staff made to the war effort on the Home Front as well as in the armed forces.
This lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick depicts a female bus conductor, she is punching a young boys ticket. Due to this ticketing system female conductors became widely known as 'conductorettes'
The border depicts a young soldier on the front line. The angle of his helmet echoes that of the young boy in the central image. As they hold their heads up high, the message to the contemporary viewer reads 'keep your chin up and soldier on'. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Work Art and Design | Temporal: | 1918 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Publisher : Underground Electric Railway Company Ltd | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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