Empire Marketing Board Posters

But more often as is very much the case with these empire marketing board posters we also lose a lot that way.

Empire marketing board posters. Minutes of the 1 st meeting of the film conference held at the board s offices co 760 37 1 february 1927. The former reference as given by the empire marketing board is an important indication of the nature of the posters. The major series was issued in sets of five plus a top caption catalogued and on the whole published chronologically in the sequence a to z followed by aa to az ba to bz ca to cz da to end. In the late 1920s and early 1930s britain attempted to direct its trade towards the empire through an advertising campaign led by the empire marketing board.

Selling solid sunshine the art of the empire marketing board. Formed in1926 and disbanded in 1933 the empire marketing board was created to promote trade between great britain and the colonies and dominions and to encourage british people to buy empire goods. Mar 26 2020 aka peacetime government propaganda. Empire marketing board film committee minutes of the seventh meeting 13 november 1928.

Note on a proposal for the preparation of a film under the auspices of the empire marketing board co 760 37 emb c 1 28 january 1927. Sometimes we can appreciate a poster by looking at it against the white walls of a gallery as though it was a piece of art. The posters were great but ultimately unsuccessful. Empire marketing board posters this collection comprises posters from the british government s empire marketing board intended to promote trade between the irish free state and great britain.

A margaret clarke poster from the empire marketing board s industrial series emb 1. By judith enright more than 800 posters and poster designs were produced by the empire marketing board emb in the early part of the 20th century. The posters that were released by the empire marketing board depicted men as empire builders and showed women buying empire products especially food. There were more than 800 poster designs produced and displayed in train stations.

Library and archives canada is custodian to 379 of these posters which represent a unique sampling from this bold and beautiful british marketing campaign. See more ideas about empire poster art poster. Irish free state poultry empire marketing board kiki werth original vintage posters kiki werth is a london based dealer who has been dealing in original vintage posters internationally for over 30 years.