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Poster, Contact with the World, Use the Telephone
This is a Poster. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. It is dated 1934 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is lithograph. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Kauffer was one of many artists who helped promote advances in global communication. For most of the 20th century, Britain’s General Post Office managed telephone calls in England based on the understanding that it was administering messages between a sender and a receiver. Here, Kauffer employs an oversize image of a telephone handset. The telephone is held up to a globe instead of an ear, to make “contact with the world.”
This object was
donated by
Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- Drawing, Design for "The Telephone at Your Service"
- brush and gouache, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-524
- Print, Design for a Booklet Cover, Come On the Telephone
- offset lithograph on cream paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-579
- Poster, Quickest by the Air Mail
- offset lithograph on paper, lined.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-61
Its dimensions are
74.9 × 49.5 cm (29 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamp in purple ink, upper left: MADE IN ENGLAND
It is signed
Printed in script, in blue ink, lower center: E. McKnight Kauffer ‘34. [underlined]
It is inscribed
Printed in black ink, lower right: PRD 66; lower left: GPO [crowned and encircled]
Cite this object as
Poster, Contact with the World, Use the Telephone; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); England; lithograph; 74.9 × 49.5 cm (29 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-62
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer and How Posters Work.
