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COLL MISC 0840/21 - Which?

Progressive Party. A workman looks at two posters on the wall. One recounts of the beneficial policies of the Progressive Party, the other the problems of the Moderate Party.
Artist:
Printer: David Allen and Sons Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/30 - An Eye Opener

Black and red ink on white paper. Lithograph produced for the Liberal Party showing a British housewife attempting to buy white bread in a shop in German, but being offered only black bread.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Liberal Publication Department
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/35 - Help for the Workers

Black ink lithograph illustrating Asquith's second budget, showing Asquith standing outside the Treasury facing a middle class man in a top hat and a working class man with a bag on his back. He is holding two signs, one regarding a cut in income tax, the other regarding money set aside for old age pensions. Banner at top and commentary at bottom.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: The Avenue Press Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/1 - The Snarer: setting the trap or, look behind the fence

Cartoon reprinted from 'Reynolds' newspaper concerning the London County Council Election of 1907. The focal point of the cartoon on this small poster is a large man hiding behind a fence, observing a trap, which he is in control of via a piece of string. On his jacket pocket is written 'Capital'. Behind the man are numourous boxes labelled 'Trusts','Monopoly','Grab' and 'Ruin' and the fence behind which he hides is labelled 'Municipal Reform'. The trap is marked 'Clap-Trap' and the bait of birdseed 'Lies'. On a tree branch above the trap are perched several birds, who are labelled 'Rate Payers'.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: John Dicks Press Limited
Publisher: Reynolds Newspaper
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/6 - 'Artful Moderate Ruse Exposed'

Progressive Part poster from the London County Council Election of 1907. This poster shows a court scene with a judge seated in the top left of the picture with 'London Public Opinion' written behind him. Below him is a portly man with 'Vested Interests' written upon his sleeve. To the right around a table, stand two policemen each holding up a jacket, and more jackets lay upon the table. The more central of the two policemen is saying 'This coat does not fit him your honour, and belongs to someone else'. Upon the coat he is holding is written 'Municipal Reform 1907'. The other policeman declares, 'This coat fits him like a glove your honour'. He is holding a coat marked 'Moderate'.
Artist:
Printer: G.S Christie Limited
Publisher: London County Council Progressive Election Committee
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/12 - What Trusts Mean to London

Progressive Party poster from the London County Council Elections of 1907. This poster demonstrates in text how the money paid to a Private Electricity Company for their Electric light supply could have brought numerous park spaces around London.
Artist:
Printer: Bowers Bros Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/17 - How Moderates Borough Councils Are Raising the Rates

Progressive Party poster from the London County Council Elections of 1907. This poster shows, in table form, the rise in rates in various London Boroughs.
Artist:
Printer: Charles Fell and Son Ltd
Publisher: London County Council Progressive Election Committee
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/20 - Quite Disinterested!

Progressive Party poster, LCC elections. The central feature of this poster is a painting which depicts a mugger, holding a club behind his back, handing a card, with 'Municipal Reform' written on it, to a man wearing regal robes and a crown marked London.
Around the corner walking towards them is a policeman with Progressive written on his belt.
Artist:
Printer: G.S. Christie Ltd
Publisher: London County Council Progressive Election Committee
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/77 - Political Parable

The tale of a little dorg who changed his name from Moderate to Minicipal Reform in order to gain admittance to a lady's house, but was still rejected, because it was the same little dorg. Text handwritten in stage Cockney with unsophisticated cartoons, reprinted from the Westminster Gazette.
Artist: F.B
Printer: Carl Hentschel Ltd
Publisher: London County Council Progressive Election Committee
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/4 - Citizens! Do Your Duty. Vote Progressive and Kill the Trusts

Newspaper Bill from the London County Council Elections of 1907. The title of this Newspaper bill is written in bold blue lettering on a white background. At the top of the poster is the logo of the Daily Chronicle newspaper.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Edward Lloyd Limited
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/13 - The Moderates Idea of Municipal Reform

Progressive Party poster from the London County Council Elections of 1907. This poster depicts a large cartoon showing men with human heads and bodies made of sponge walking into a sea marked London and coming out engorged with water.
The caption at the bottom of the poster reads,'Sponges that want to fill themselves at the public expense. These are the friends of the Moderates. Vote Progressive and protect your own property'.
Artist: Jordie
Printer: G.S Christie
Publisher: London County Council Progressive Election Committee
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/18 - Progressive Party poster produced by 'Tribune' for LCC elections

The central feature of this poster is the large cartoon in the middle. It shows the front of a house, with a woman answering the door to a man marked 'Moderate Party'. While they are talking, two men marked 'Dividends' and 'Private Monopoly' are breaking into her house via a side window. At the top of the poster in white letters on a black background is written,'Tribune', while at the bottom is written,'Vote for the Progressives'.
Artist: J.H.L
Printer: The Tribune
Publisher: The Tribune Ltd
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/22 - Progressive and Moderate - The Motive Spirit

Progressive Party poster from the London County Council Elections of 1907. This poster depicts two men, one who represents a progressive member and the other a moderate. Behind the Progressive figure is a Angel like apparition handing him a scroll marked the 'People's Welfare'. Behind the Moderate is a Devil like figure handing him a sack marked 'Dividends'.
Artist:
Printer: David Allen and Sons Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/3 - An Awkward Relationship: Little Johnny would Come

Cartoon satirizing the relationship between the Liberal Party and the Irish nationalists, featuring Campbell-Bannerman as a nervous bride in a wedding dress, and John Redmond as her illegitimate son. Produced for the Conservative and Unionist parties.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Publication: London
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COLL MISC 0519/15 - It Really is a Very Pretty Garden

Full colour lithograph showing ? standing in a garden outside the Radical Conservatory with a watering can, surrounded by healthy potted plants representing Home Rule Imperial Disunion, and Godless Education, and stunted weeds representing Social Reform, Strong Navy and Reduced Taxation.
Artist: George Belcher
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/26 - Baiting the 'Dear Food' Hook

Small poster showing a fisherman (unidentified politician) baiting his hook with worms called Full Employment and Higher Wages, with his fishing basket, Protection, beside him. In the river, a fish with a man's head (another politician?) looks balefully up at him. Produced by the Liberals.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Liberal Publication Department
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/85 - Wake Up! It is not what we have now... but how long we shall keep it

Black and red lithograph on white paper showing a British workman asleep as a pipe-smoking Dutchman? with a suitcase creeps around the corner from the docks. Banner top and bottom quoting Chamberlain's speech made in Liverpool on 27 October 1903. Poster produced for the Tariff Reform League.
Artist: George Belcher
Printer: Sifken and Co
Publisher: The Tariff Reform League
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/6 - The Decoy

Bannerman and John Bull are shown walking arm in arm along a pleasant street. In the foreground, hidden from their view, an Irish nationalist is waiting with a gun and a club. He is unshaven, and wears a mask, a green jacket, and a hat with Home Rule written acorss the front.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co.
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/12 - Hopelessly lost. The Radical Babes in the Wood, and no way out of it

Spoof on the fairy story Babes in the Wood, with two Radicals (Bannerman and John Morley) dressed as children, walking through the thorny undergrowth of Little England between trees with grim faces called Home Rule, Alien Question and Education. Colour panel with small text banner top and bottom.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/16 - Chinese Labour

Scene outside a mine in the Transvaal, with Campbell-Bannerman addressing a British workman in a bowler hat and good suit. Cartoon Chinese workers are seen in the background. Bannerman is sympathising with the British man about the Chinese workers taking away all his work, but the workman disagrees, saying that "for every nine coolies, there's a white man gettin' a 1 a day to boss 'em.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/17 - The Next Revival

Bannerman is shown in a brass bed, a Union flag hanging like a curtain to the left. He it sitting up, dressed in a nightshirt and night cap, staring at a realistically-portayed drowned black cat, which is walking across the bed towards him. It has red rolling eyes, and bricks attached to its paws reading 1886 and 1895.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/18 - Redmond's Last Words

Black ink on green paper, with a cartoon of John Redmond raising his fist, and a quote of Redmond's regarding home rule, produced for the Unionist Party.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Dobson, Molle and Co.
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/21 - This Way, Sir!

Campbell-Bannerman stands at the top of a flight of steps (called Radicalism, Inefficient Army and Navy, Home Rule, and Disunited Empire) that lead from the sunlight down into a dark and fetid pool called Ruin. He appears to be trying to persuade John Bull to walk down the steps in front of him.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co.
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
PLace of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/29 - The Cupboard Still Bare

Spoof of nursery rhyme 'Old Mother Hubbard, showing Chamberlain dressed as an old lady opening the 'Old Age Pensions Cupboard' for her dog called 'Aged Poor'. Satirical version of nursery rhyme below image, and explanatory text below the nursery rhyme, commenting on Chamberlain's suggestion that the workman should pay for his Old Age Pension out of a tax on his food.
Thick red border around the image.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production
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