A wounded hand using a key to gain access to health services. Colour lithograph by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1937.

  • Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954.
Date:
[1937]
Reference:
22676i
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About this work

Publication/Creation

[London] : Ministry of Health, [1937] (London : J. Weiner Ltd., 71-75 New Oxford Street)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76 x 50.7 cm

Lettering

Towards a fitter Britain. Use your health services. Maternity and child welfare services. School medical services. Tuberculosis and social hygiene services. National health insurance services. E. McKnight Kauffer Lettering bottom right: "Outdoor poster /A2"

References note

M. Haworth-Booth, E. McKnight Kauffer: a designer and his public, London: G. Fraser, 1979, p. 132 (included in list of works)
David Kemp, Finsbury Health Centre [videotape], London 1983, frame 489 (an impression of this or a similar poster posted up on a wall inside the Finsbury Health Centre, 1938)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 22676i

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