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A tall, rectangular political poster features bold, capitalised text in red ink against a tan or light brown background. The text is centered and arranged in six horizontal lines of slightly varying sizes. The first two lines, "A NATION" and "AT WORK", are printed in a large, red sans-serif font. These are followed by the word "NOT" in a slightly smaller font, and then "A NATION" and "AT WAR" again in the large red font. At the bottom, a very large all caps font reads "VOTE LABOUR". The typography is clean and blocky, filling most of the vertical space of the poster. The overall layout is minimalist, relying entirely on high-contrast lettering without any illustrative borders or secondary graphics.

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Title
A nation at work, not a nation at war: Vote Labour
Creator
The Elm Press, London, W.C. 1, publisher
Published
Great Britain, 1935-1936
Full Collection Name
British political campaign posters and broadsides, circa 1935-circa 1945s
Project Name
War Posters
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 2005.006:004--D
Subject (Topic)
Miscellaneous: Government information
Great Britain
Political posters, English
Type
Image
Extent
1 print (poster);;76 x 51 cm
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Stamped Aiken Collection on verso: Published by the Labour Party, Transport House, Smith Square, S.W. 1
Part of: British political campaign posters
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Image description generated by AI (Gemini 3.0 Fast) and reviewed, February 2026 .

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