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  • Kensington Gardens in War-time, 1914 Kensington Gardens in War-time, 1914

    (art) Made by: Bainbrigge, Edith M 1914

    image: a view of Kensington Palace from across the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens. On the far side of the lake is an encampment of white tents, with several figures visible.

  • Army Service Corps Army Service Corps

    (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

    whole: the image is placed upper centre, held within a black border. The title is placed in the upper quarter, in red, with the text placed in the upper quarter, in black, and in the lower half, in black and in red. All set against a white background and...

  • Join the Royal Air Force Join the Royal Air Force

    (posters) Made by: F R (artist) 1918

    whole: the image fills the whole with text incorporated above and below, in yellow, red and black. Below the image is a scrolled cartouche detailing rates of pay. image: an aerial dogfight with an RAF fighter diving to attack a German aircraft that...

  • Come Along! - Grand Christmas Fair Come Along! - Grand Christmas Fair

    (posters) Made by: Attwell, Mabel Lucie (artist)

    whole: the image occupies the majority, with the title integrated and positioned lower right, in green outlined black. The text is separate and positioned on an additional text strip adhered to the bottom quarter, in black against a white background. The...

  • The Straw Ride: Russley Park Remount Depôt, Wiltshire The Straw Ride: Russley Park Remount Depôt, Wiltshire

    (art) Made by: Kemp-Welch, Lucy 1919

    image: Three women exercising horses in a remount depot. They take their charges through their paces in an indoor straw- ride. Each woman rides one horse and leads another.

  • The Ladies' Army Remount Depôt, Russley Park, Wiltshire, 1918 The Ladies' Army Remount Depôt, Russley Park, Wiltshire, 1918

    (art) Made by: Kemp-Welch, Lucy 1919

    image: A group of women riders exercising pairs of horses. They break into a trot along an unsurfaced road. In the background the hills and fileds roll off into the distance.

  • The Balloon Apron The Balloon Apron

    (art) Made by: Dobson, Frank (RA) 1918

    image: A view across a flat agricultural landscape. Barrage balloons are lit by a dramatic evening sunset. On the horizon factory chimneys send up thick vertical streams of smoke into the sky. In the foreground lies a narrow country road that curves...

  • A Land Girl Ploughing A Land Girl Ploughing

    (art) Made by: Aldin, Cecil 1918

    image: A scene showing two grey horses harnessed to a plough being driven by a Land Girl, moving from right to left of the composition. Beyond the girl is a view of the distant countryside. A storm is brewing in the grey sky above their heads.

  • Voluntary Land Workers in a Flax-field, Podington, Northamptonshire Voluntary Land Workers in a Flax-field, Podington, Northamptonshire

    (art) Made by: Schwabe, Randolph 1919

    image: A group of women land workers gathering flax, which they tie into bundles and stack in a pile. Their camp of bell tents lies in the background next to a group of trees.

  • National Service - Women's Land Army - God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It National Service - Women's Land Army - God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It

    (posters) Made by: Gawthorn, Henry George (artist) 1917

    whole: MODEL design: Land Girl, full-length figure, in uniform and hat, guiding a horse-drawn plough to right. Crows, soaring over the newly furrowed ground, are silhouetted against the stylised rays of a partially obscured sun text: "NATIONAL SERVICE" (...

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