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

Undignified? One Must do Something for a Living!! Anything's Better Than Being on the Dole

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933

Undignified? One Must do Something for a Living!! Anything's Better Than Being on the Dole

1927
15 x 11 1/16 inches (381 x 280 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper.
1986.1631

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: Buy British & Colonial Goods & Reduce Unemployment & Send Down the Rates.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower left, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1927"; captioned below drawing, "Undignified? One Must do Something for a Living!! Anything's Better Than Being on the Dole. Buy British & Colonial Goods & Reduce Unemployment & Send Down the Rates."
Classification
Century Drawings