Image of The Empire's Strength - Do You Know That India..., 1939 by Batty, Dora M. (1900-66)

The Empire's Strength - Do You Know That India..., 1939 (lithograph on paper)

IMAGE number: IWM7415764
Image title: The Empire's Strength - Do You Know That India..., 1939 (lithograph on paper)
Artist: Batty, Dora M. (1900-66) / British
Location: Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Medium: lithograph on paper
Date: c. 1939 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions: 50.9x31.8 cms

Image description: A propaganda poster issued by the British government in 1939 to show UK citizens the importance of keeping their colonies due to the lack of their own resources. It depicts Indian women harvesting jute, titled: 'THE EMPIRE'S STRENGTH - DO YOU KNOW THAT - INDIA - supplies all the jute for making sacks and sandbags: that more than half Britain's needs of livestock foods come from India as well as tea, rice, hides, skins, cotton and manganese - THESE ARE THE SINEWS OF WAR'. In 1947 India ceased to exist as a British colony. By Batty, Dora M. (1900-66)
Photo credit: © Imperial War Museums / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: two persons / 20th century / poster / agriculture / 1930s / art / colony / colour / Second World War (1939-1945) / war / economics / woman / woman at work / war effort / United Kingdom / Europe / India / Asia / worker / propaganda / harvest / textile / farmer / print / British Empire / mzprint

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