The need for bones to be supplied to make glue, fertiliser, soap, and other products. Colour lithograph by D. Dekk, ca. 1946/1948.

  • Dorrit Dekk
Date:
[1946/1948]
Reference:
44112i
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Glue used for housing is illustrated by a photo-collage of a house cut to the shape of a gluepot, and fertiliser for food by a photo-collage of wheat cut to the shape of a sack of fertiliser. Below, a girl (drawn, not photographed) walks forward holding a big bone, treading on the word Bones

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[London?] : Issued by the Board of Trade : Printed for H.M. Stationery Office, [1946/1948] ([London?] : Printed ... by Gibbs & Waller, Ltd.)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76.2 x 50.6 cm

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Bones are still needed to make glue for housing and fertiliser for food also for other purposes including soap ; Dekk Bears Board of Trade reference no. : B.O.T. 227. Bears HMSO (?) reference no. : 51-2964

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Wellcome Collection 44112i

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