Letters for the Forces & Merchant Navy: airgraphs are the cheapest form of air communication
Hand-lettered type over a tilted dark-blue panel reading 'airgraphs', with the GPO crown-and-circle mark at lower right. The poster states one selling point, that airgraphs are the cheapest air communication, and gives no other facts about the service (card-stacking, mild).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- General Post Office (GPO), printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Chromoworks Ltd, London; artist Austin Cooper
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
General Post Office; artist Austin Cooper; printed by Chromoworks Ltd for HMSO, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
Letters for the Forces & Merchant Navy airgraphs are the cheapest form of air communication AUSTIN COOPER GPO PRINTED FOR H.M.STATIONERY OFFICE BY CHROMOWORKS LTD, LONDON. 51-3735. PRD 305.
