Contact with the World, Use the Telephone
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Object Details
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- British General Post Office, London, England
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster depicts a blue Earth with a large black telephone handset against it at an angle. In blue block type, in diagonal on picture plane: CONTACT / WITH THE WORLD. In block type outlined in blue ink, in diagonal on the picture plane: USE THE; below, in all-black: TELEPHONE
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- 1934
- Accession Number
- 1963-39-62
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 74.9 × 49.5 cm (29 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
- made in
- London, England, United Kingdom
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1963-39-62
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a0ea7cb0-ffe1-4e90-a712-967a31ae04e1
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