Effort Collection (page 4)

WW1 poster, A Call to Action! to all employees
WW1 poster, A Call to Action! from Woodrow Wilson to all industrial employees working on government contracts, issued by the Navy Department. Date: circa 1917

WW2 poster, For a Certain Harvest invest in National Savings. Date: circa 1945

WW1 poster, I Want You for the Navy - promotion for anyone enlisting, apply any recruiting station or postmaster. Date: 1917

WW2 poster, Join your savings group, now! Date: circa 1944

Keep smiling! Sheels are piling, Men are joining, Women toiling, All are working, Nothing shirking, So.... Thumbs Up! Date: circa 1916

Comic postcard, Woman buying rail ticket with two children hiding under her skirts, WW1 Date: circa 1918

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coupon shortage and making do
The long Caption gives the little girls excuse for having patches. The Home Front War Effort was helped along by cryptic slogans such as Make do and Mend and Making do

Shakespeare Gallery
A view of The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London, was the first stage of a three-part project initiated in November 1786 by engraver

Save your old waste paper for conversion into munitions: a vital contribution to the war effort. Double page spread from The Illustrated London News. Date: 1941

Salve it, 1942
Salve it article, 1942, about saving every scrap of paper for the war effort. Waste paper is a munition of war. Date: 1942

ILN cover - Bren-carriers being entrained
Open rail trucks being loaded with Bren-gun carriers by their crews in June 1940, when all munitions production in Britain was ramped up in the face of a threat of German invasion. Date: 1940

The Woman At the Knitting Party... by H. M. Bateman
The Woman at the Knitting Party Who Dared to Knit Herself a Jumper by H. M. Bateman (while the rest of the group get on with knitting socks and other comforts for serving soldiers). Date: 1940

The Bristlewoods See it Through, WWII cartoon
Mrs Bristlewood: " The idea of your going fishing in wartime! And wheres your gas-mask?" Mr Bristlewood: " If you want to know, my gas-masks here - and my knitting too"

Uniformed female workers in British war services, April 1941
A selection of women involved in British war services including the Womens Royal Naval Services, the Womens Auxiliary Territorials Service, the Red Cross, the Womens Auxiliary Air Force

Londoners travelling to work amid wartime delays 1939
Londoners photographed as they travel after experiencing delays due to air raid warnings. The Sphere describes " three hours suburban traffic" but reports that " by 9.30 and 10 a.am

Soldiers in their quarters at a racecourse, September 1939
Soldiers photographed at an unidentified race course in their temporary sleeping quarters in September 1939. In peacetime, these seats would be reserved for richer customers. September 1939

Poster, You can help to build me a plane, WW2. You can learn quickly and you will be working to win. Ask at any employment exchange for advice and full details. A job is waiting for you. 1940s

Poster, Full Ahead Production, WW2. 1940s

Recruitment poster, Offer Your Services Now, WW1
Recruitment poster, Offer Your Services Now, Our brave soldiers at the Front need your help. 1914

Bugler blowing All Clear after Zeppelin air raid, WW1
Bugler blowing the All Clear after a Zeppelin air raid during the First World War. 1914-1918

Material shortage during First World War
Material shortage during the First World War - a man with rope, string and rolls of paper. Date: 1914-1918

Braids Heroic Effort: The Match-Play
Finalists James Braid and Archie Compston putting on the green in torrential rain in the News of the World Match-Play Championship at Walton Heath 1927

Carrier pigeons - including testing the pigeons, playing an important role in the war effort of World War Two. 1941

Women signing on for munitions work 1915
Beating up recruits : Women signing on for munitions work in front of the Houses of Parliament. Large numbers of women stopped to fill forms in, despite the wet and blustery weather. Date: July 1915

Lloyd George and Pankhurst as one voice 1915
David Lloyd George, British statesman at the time, speaking on the embankment, London; " We have witnessed a very fine procession of women who are anxious to help their country in the hour of

Lady Sclater and volunteers, War Workroom Fund, doing useful work for hospitals at home and abroad during the First World War. circa 1917

Margarine factory fighting food shortage, WW1
Margarine factory fighting a food shortage due to German submarine action during the First World War. 1914-1918

Woman saving paper during WW1
Woman saving paper during the First World War. 1914-1918

Boot mending at Scaynes Hill Womens Institute, WW1
Boot mending at Scaynes Hill Womens Institute, West Sussex, during the First World War. 1914-1918

Womens Auxiliary Army Corps, WW1
Members of the Womens Auxiliary Army Corps in a clothing store, packing uniforms into bales for recruits, First World War. 1914-1918

Women at a shoe mending class, WW1
Women taking part in a shoe mending class, First World War. 1914-1918

Making sacks and warm clothes for the troops, WW1
Women making sacks and warm clothes for the troops in a YMCA hut during the First World War. 1914-1918

Poster, Fight with National War Bonds, WW1
Poster, Fight with National War Bonds -- a female figure waving a British flag during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Climbing the Geyenstein, Saxony
Men climbing the frowning summit of the Geyenstein in Saxony, Germany. 1928

Label for painting, The Buffet, by William Strang, WW1
Label for painting, The Buffet, by William Strang, First World War. Buffets were held to raise money as part of the war effort. 1917

The Buffet, by William Strang, WW1
The Buffet, painting by William Strang, First World War. Buffets were held to raise money as part of the war effort. 1917

Vive La France! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Three Cheers for South Africa! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Three Cheers for Canada! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Russia All Hail! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Long Live Japan! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Good Luck Serbia! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Forward Italy! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

For Bonnie Scotland! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Bravo Belgium! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

All Hail India! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Advance Australia! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

England for Ever! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

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