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Highways of Empire

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Highways of Empire

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018

Part I: From Drawing Board to Billboard.
The story behind the design and creation of MacDonald Gill’s 1927 Empire Marketing Board Poster, “Highways of Empire”: “Imperialism without tears”

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“The World made merry”: 20th Century designer, poster artist & pictorial mapmaker, Herry Perry [1897-1962]

May 6, 2017September 4, 2024

Herry Perry [1897-1962] Until 1960, on May 6th each year, the Catholic Church traditionally celebrated The Feast Day of St John the Apostle or St.John before the Latin Gate. In AD 95 the Roman Emperor Domitian had ordered the Saint,…

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