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Series
Colonial Office: Empire Marketing Board: Posters
Catalogue reference: CO 956
What's it about?
CO 956
This series contains copies of posters which were issued by the Empire Marketing Board from 1927 to 1933.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CO 956
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Empire Marketing Board: Posters
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Date (When the record was created)
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1926-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains copies of posters which were issued by the Empire Marketing Board from 1927 to 1933.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The piece description gives the original title of each poster or a description of it or part or all of its wording or caption. The name of the artist is also given where identified. The former reference, as given by the Empire Marketing Board, is an important indication of the nature of the posters. The major series was issued in sets of five plus a top caption, catalogued, and on the whole published chronologically, in the sequence A to Z, followed by AA to AZ, BA to BZ, CA to CZ, DA to end.
Some posters were especially reprinted by the Board and given the additional prefix R. The series with the prefix CL are 'Contract Labels' and those with the prefix CON are 'Contract Posters'. The series of large posters with the prefix HDG are 'Hoarding Posters'. Those with the former reference beginning MP are 'Milk Publicity' items. References beginning with SWB are 'Shop Window Bills', with SWC 'Shop Window Cards', and with SWS 'Shop Window Strips'.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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A number of further posters are known to have been published by the Board but are not in this series. Copies of some of these posters are in the collection of Empire Marketing Board posters held by the Victoria and Albert Museum (which also has some of the original art work). A further small collection is kept by Birmingham Polytechnic Library.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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734 flat sheet(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Trade and commerce
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For further information on the Board and the posters see Stephen Constantine, Buy and Build: the Advertising Posters of the Empire Marketing Board (London, 1986).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5145/
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