![Post Office Telegraphists at War Work - Telegraph Less [1], 1939 UK poster: Two women telegraphists work a teleprinter](../images/uk-post-office-telegraphists-telegraph-less-prd317-1939.jpg)
Post Office Telegraphists at War Work - Telegraph Less [1]
Two women telegraphists work a teleprinter at a shared desk beside the words 'Post Office Telegraphists at war work', a Morse dash pattern, and 'TELEGRAPH LESS'. The tell for transfer is the link between the operators' war work and the request to send fewer telegrams.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- General Post Office; artist Donia Nachshen; printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Johnson Riddle & Co. Ltd.
- 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
- Home front, Labor
- 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, printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Johnson Riddle & Co. Ltd; artist Donia Nachshen, c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, NAID 44266917, local identifier 44-PF-343a.
Text on the object
Post Office Telegraphists at war work ... ___ TELEGRAPH LESS DONIA NACHSHEN GPO Printed for H.M.S.O. by Johnson Riddle & Co., Ltd. London, S.E.20. 51- 3925 PRD 317
