Nederlandsche Arbeidsdienst [Dutch Work Service]

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Nederlandsche Arbeidsdienst [Dutch Work Service]
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  • Title :     Nederlandsche Arbeidsdienst [Dutch Work Service]
  • Artist:     Schell Designer Nederlandsche Arbeidsdienst Commissioner
  • Accession:     TD1995.31.5
  • Country:     Netherlands
  • Date:     1940
  • Dimensions:     Inches 41-3/4 28-1/2, Centimeters 106.0 72.4
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Posters and Printed Ephemera
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     Propaganda , Agriculture , Laborers/Workers , Labor Unions/Unionism
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
  • URL:     TD1995.31.5.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper offset color lithograph depicting a bare chested man carrying a spade while walking through a wheat field; this poster was used in Holland to inform unmarried men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-three years of age that they were required to register to join the Dutch Work Service, section of the N.S.B. (Arbeitseninsatz).