Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Reduction of Rates

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Reduction of Rates

1927
15 x 10 15/16 inches (382 x 278 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper.
1986.1634

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from item.
Drawing for an advertisement promoting the purchase of products produced in the British Empire, part of a government campaign devised by the Empire Marketing Board of Great Britain.
Caption continues: His Worship the Mayor in a weighty & eloquent speech remarked: "It's no use grumbling and doing nothing to alter the present state of affairs. But-if everyone will "do his bit" in Peace, as he did in War, by the simple expedient of purchasing goods made either in Great Britain or in the Dominions, the unemployment problem will be materially simplified; and we shall soon see a Reduction in the crushing burden of Rates" (Loud Cheers) Moral: Buy Empire Goods!
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; above image, "Reduction of Rates"; below, "His Worship the Mayor in a weighty & eloquent speech remarked: ..."
Classification
Century Drawings