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COLL MISC 0519/74 - The Tax-payers' Financial Barometer

Full text poster in black on white paper, with large graphs in blue and red ink. The graphs compare the expenditure of Tory and Liberal governments between 1875-1886, to the detriment of the Liberals.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: C Terry and Co
Publisher: John Hall
Place of Production: London
Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.

COLL MISC 0519/38 - Liberal and Tory Finance. No. 1. Taxation Imposed or Remitted During the Last Twenty-one Years

Half page of text with bar chart comparing levels of taxation under Tory and Liberal governments, 1865-1885. Lithograph in black ink with red and blue bar chart, produced for the Liberal Central Association, 41 - 42 Parliament Street, Westminster, London.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: National Press Agency Ltd
Publisher: Printer
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 0519/1 - To the Electors of the City of Worcester

Full text lithograph in red ink on white paper. Campaign poster for the 1892 General Election for George Allsopp, Conservative and Unionist candidate for the City of Worcester, 1885-1906.
Artist: unknown
Printer: C. H. Birbeck and Co
Publisher: C. H. Birbeck and Co
Place of Publication: Worcester
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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 0519/90 - A Free Trade Forecast

Smaller version of Coll Misc 519/92, 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
Publisher: Imperial Tariff Committee
Place of Production: Birmingham
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COLL MISC 0519/33 - Guilty!

Judge John Bull finds the Tory Government guilty of numerous offences relating to Britain's conduct in the Boer War, described in a panel in the centre of the image. The offending politicians are standing in the dock. John Bull's comments appear in text below him; the word Guilty in large upper case at the top. A thick red line borders the poster.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
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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COLL MISC 0519/36 - A Herring to catch a Sprat

Chaplin is shown standing on a beach talking to a Working Man, offering him the chance to go out in his boat Tariff Reform to fish for higher wages using Food Taxes as bait, an offer which the man declines.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Waterlow and Sons Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/44 - Substance and Shadow

The Bulldog of Labour, dressed in working man's clothes, and carrying a bag labelled Cheap Food in its mouth, crosses a bridge called Free Trade, rather than risking the semi-submerged rock of Higher Wages, More Work.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/45 - Taking Things Quietly. the Game of Grab

Small poster showing John Bull resting against a tree in a wood, having been assaulted and robbed by unidentified men dressed in black frock coats and top hats. The men are carrying bags called Rent of Teachers House, Endowment, Wear and Tear Repairs, and Fees. Conservative and Unionist poster.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher:
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/4 - Mrs. Bannerman's Cabinet Pudding

Campbell-Bannerman, dressed in a red frock and white apron, is shown mixing a bowl of Radical Programme in a kitchen. He offers a spoonful of the mixture to John Bull, who is raising his hand in refusal. The shelves behind Bannerman are laden with jars and packets labelled Slave Grown Rice, Foreign Paupers, Candied Cries, etc.
Artist: M. A.
Printer: McCorquodale and Co. Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/5 - Ain't You the Radical Party? (Barmyville Asylum)

Full colour lithograph showing a cheerful idiot inviting three Radicals to join him in the Barmyville Asylum.
Artist: George Belcher
Printer: McCorquodale and Co. Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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