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COLL MISC 0519/34 - Don't be Hanky-Panky'd Again: The Hanky-Panky Government

[A J Balfour] posing as a conjuror or magician, stands behind a covered table, and places an egg named Khaki 1900 into John Bull's hat. [Joseph Chamberlain] peeks from behind the table cover holding a duck. In the next scene, Balfour withdraws two white rabbits from the hat (called Education Acts and Licensing Act 1904), while a duck called Tax on Food sits on its brim. Poster produced for the Liberal Party (based on a cartoon in the Westminster Gazette?).
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: The Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production
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COLL MISC 0519/37 - How the Tories Have Increased the Cost of Living

Blue and red ink on white paper, illustrating the increase in the price of tea and sugar under a Tory government (Tory government of 1905 compared to Liberal government of 1895), produced for the Liberal Party.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/42 - Paws Off!

Lithograph depicting Justice (armed with the Sword of Temperance) pulling the disguise from a British Lion to reveal an unidentified politician's drink-flushed face. The lion is standing on a scroll representing the Licensing Bill.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Waterlow and Sons
Publisher: Liberal Publication Department
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/75 - Liberal and Tory Finance, No. 3: National Debt

Three colour lithograph (black, blue, red) produced for the Liberal Central Association, comparing the Liberals record on reducing the National Debt with that of the Conservatives, between 1865 - 1885. Mostly text, with a large graph.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: National Press Agency Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/76 - To the Parochial Electors of St. Anne's-on-the-Sea

Handbill produced for John Allen's campaign to stand for the New District Council on the platform of making St. Anne's-on-the-Sea one of the healthiest and most attractive Health Resorts in the Country, with commentary on the provision of public toilets, an improved slaughterhouse, better sanitation, etc., 17 November 1894.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Henry Maxwell and Co
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: Blackpool
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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 0519/80 - Each for all and all for each

Reproduction of a portrait of Chamberlain? in sepia tones, set in against a burnt orange backgroud, with the title below the picture, and the heading, Tariff Reform League at the top.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Sir Joseph Causton and Sons Ltd
Publisher: Tariff Reform League
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/81 - Free imports have made Britain the dumping ground of all nations..

Lithograph cartoon (red and blue on white), depicting John Bull, Uncle Sam and ?Kaiser Bill, with text banner top and bottom, and a poem on free trade begining There was a young man of Berlin... Pro-Tariff Reform poster produced for the Liberal Unionist Council.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Dobson, Molle and Co Ltd
Publisher: Liberal Unionist Council
Place of Production: Edinburgh
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COLL MISC 0519/86 - Wake Up. Now or Never!

Black and red ink full text poster with very detailed statistics from the Report of the Royal Commission on Depression of Trade, 1886,in order to illustrate The Cause for the Decline in British Industry.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Jackson, Wragge and Co
Publisher:
Place of Production: Manchester
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COLL MISC 0519/88 - What Price Today? Shopman: A loaf is three halfpence more today, boy!

A fat shopkeeper stands behind a counter next to baskets piled high with bread, with shelves loaded with foreign produce behind him. A small thin boy in tattered clothes stands in front of the counter, trying to buy bread. A General Election poster for 1906, the text struck through, can be seen in the foreground. Banner top and bottom.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co
Publisher: Tariff Reform League
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/92-3 - Large segments of "A Free Trade Forecast"

Large colour lithograph in 8 pieces [section 6 missing], depicting a Free Trade Shop selling all sorts of imported goods, with an unemployed British workman standing outside being addressed by a wealthy German, a member of the Cobden Club.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Percival Jones Ltd
Publiher: Imperial Tariff Committee
Place of Production: Birmingham
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COLL MISC 0519/92-4 - Large segments of "A Free Trade Forecast"

Large colour lithograph in 8 pieces [section 6 missing], depicting a Free Trade Shop selling all sorts of imported goods, with an unemployed British workman standing outside being addressed by a wealthy German, a member of the Cobden Club.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Percival Jones Ltd
Publiher: Imperial Tariff Committee
Place of Production: Birmingham
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COLL MISC 0519/92-7 - Large segments of "A Free Trade Forecast"

Large colour lithograph in 8 pieces [section 6 missing], depicting a Free Trade Shop selling all sorts of imported goods, with an unemployed British workman standing outside being addressed by a wealthy German, a member of the Cobden Club.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Percival Jones Ltd
Publiher: Imperial Tariff Committee
Place of Production: Birmingham
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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 0719/4 - The vitamin content of food products: Vegetables

A still life of a birch? basket filled with vegetables, including tomatoes, cauliflowers, potatoes, carrots, onions, etc. Banner above image, and chart below showing the vitamin levels of the various vegetables.
Artist:
Printer: Mospoligraf
Publisher: Gosmedizdat
Place of Production: Moscow
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