A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?).

Date:
[between 1930 and 1939?]
Reference:
659653i
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A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Upper left, the bad items (skull and alcohol) are shown in black on white. Bottom right, the good things (milk bottle and a gateway to the city of Prague) are shown in white on blue. The frontier between the two sections is an exclamation mark which has a stem in the black (bad) livery and a dot in the blue (good) livery. The lettering, the skull, the city of Prague and the bottles are linked together in the design, which is in a modernist style

The milk bottle is transparent, and through it is shown the gateway formed by the Malostranské mostecké veze (Lesser Town Bridge Towers), the towers at one end of the Charles Bridge in Prague, suggesting temperance as a gateway to life

Publication/Creation

[Praha] [Prague] : [publisher not identified], [between 1930 and 1939?] (Praha : M. Schulz A.S.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in blue and black ; sheet 63 x 47.5 cm

Lettering

Alkohol při práci nebezpečí !úrazu! Mléko a nápoje bez alkoholu osvéžují: posilují ; zvyšují ; Bezpečnost. Doporučeno Ústředním Živnostenským Inspectorátem Ministerstva Sociálni Péče, výnosem č.j. 1759/III-G-30 Translation of lettering: "Alcohol when working: danger of accident! Milk and alcohol-free drinks: refresh; strengthen; increase safety. Recommended by the Central Trade Inspectorate of the Ministry of Social Welfare, regulation no. 1759/III-G-30"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 659653i

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