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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
A C3 Nation?
1927
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper.
15 1/16 x 11 1/16 inches (383 x 280 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1635
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Drawing for an advertisement promoting the purchase of products produced in the British Empire, part of a government campaign devised by the Empire Marketing Board of Great Britain.
Caption continues at bottom: No! Find him a job at Home or in the Colonies - Now - but How? Buy Empire Goods.
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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; above image, "A C3 Nation?"; below "No! Find him a job at Home or in the Colonies - Now - but How? Buy Empire Goods."; written in in pencil above lower portion of caption, "But he will soon be unemployable unless can - (or Give Him No Money; But)."
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Illustration shows a man selling handmade brooms on a city street.
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