workers packing herring at a shipping port

Herring Packers EMB Charles Pears

by Charles Pears
c. 1930
40 x 60 inches
(100 x 150 cm)
backed

SOLD

Charles Pears poster for the Empire Marketing Board showing women herring packers circa 1930.
Teams of women did seasonal packing work in Scotland and then travelled down the east coast of England as far as East Anglia.
The Scottish Fisheries Museum has an interesting article about this work.
A rare poster. Charles Pears (1973 – 1958) is well known as a marine artist. He designed many posters for London Underground, the railway companies and Empire Marketing Board.


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