Ministry of Information, “Keep Calm and Carry On,” 1939

Ministry of Information, “Keep Calm and Carry On,” 1939
Ministry of Information, “Keep Calm and Carry On,” 1939. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View full size
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Ministry of Information, Keep Calm and Carry On (poster)
Printed
London, 1939
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Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Used in
☞ “Cut XII, Keep Calm and State of Nature On”

The Second World War poster, printed but almost never posted, rediscovered in 2000 and endlessly parodied since.

Shaped: Cut XII, Keep Calm and State of Nature On.

Source: the original on Wikimedia Commons, with its full record and licence.

Here endeth this leaf of the Cabinet, which ſheweth Keep Calm and Carry On (poster) (London, 1939), the work of Ministry of Information and not of this preſs. The image is from Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Gathered here for ſtudy the ſeventh day of October, 2026. Finis.

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Ministry of Information.
Keep Calm and Carry On (poster).
London, 1939.
Wikimedia Commons (public domain),
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keep-calm-and-carry-on-scan.jpg.

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