--- title: 'Buy Empire Every Day: First Oranges from South Africa (Empire Marketing Board)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/emb-buy-empire-every-day-oranges-1930/ description: Colour lithograph poster of a street oranges stall, with a barrow-boy holding up fruit to children and shoppers and a woman at a table making a pie. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Buy Empire Every Day: First Oranges from South Africa (Empire Marketing Board)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/emb-buy-empire-every-day-oranges-1930.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/emb-buy-empire-every-day-oranges-1930.jpg) # Buy Empire Every Day: First Oranges from South Africa (Empire Marketing Board) Colour lithograph poster of a street oranges stall, with a barrow-boy holding up fruit to children and shoppers and a woman at a table making a pie. Panels at the top mark '1907 First oranges from South Africa' and '1903 First sultanas and currants from Australia'; the slogan is 'Buy Empire every day', with 1929 shipment figures beneath. The tell: loyalty to the Empire is pasted onto an ordinary grocery purchase (transfer). ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 1907 FIRST ORANGES FROM SOUTH AFRICA 1903 FIRST SULTANAS AND CURRANTS FROM AUSTRALIA BUY EMPIRE EVERY DAY 1929 South Africa sent out 1,000,000 boxes 1929 Australia sent out 108,000,000 lbs of sultanas & currants [small imprint, lower left, partly illegible: ... ISSUED BY THE EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD] [small imprint, lower right: PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY WATERLOW & SONS LTD. LONDON, DUNSTABLE & WATFORD] ``` The two small imprint lines are tiny in the 960 px image; the left one is only partly legible. The Library and Archives Canada footer outside the poster is not part of the object. [← Stalin's Pipe (Trubka Stalina)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deni-stalins-pipe-1930/) [Gandhi spins while addressing a crowd (1930) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gandhi-spinning-1930/) ## Using the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)