Going Ashore?

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Going Ashore?
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  • Title :     Going Ashore?
  • Artist:     H. M. Stationery Office Publisher Fosh & Cross Ltd. Printer
  • Accession:     1993.1.41
  • Country:     Great Britain London
  • Date:     circa 1939 1945
  • Dimensions:     Inches 15 10, Centimeters 38.1 25.4
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Posters and Printed Ephemera
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     Anti-Nazism , War/Military , Loose Lips , World War II 1940-1945 , Propaganda
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Gift of The Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
  • URL:     1993.1.41.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper lithograph promoting the need for the confidentiality of information concerning movements of ships, crews and cargoes during World War II; depicts a parrot wearing a Nazi captain's hat at center with ocean in background; multiple lines of foreign text at lower left and right.