Unseen but Unceasing...
A photograph of a young woman telephone engineer working on exchange cabling is set in a stylised landscape of telegraph poles, a barrage balloon and a red telephone. The headline credits unnamed GPO workers with ceaseless service, using an ordinary working woman as the face of the effort (plain folks).
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 Field Sons & Co. Ltd., Bradford; artist Sarg
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- 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 / H.M. Stationery Office; artist Sarg. US National Archives, NAID 44267307 (44-PF-490).
Text on the object
UNSEEN BUT UNCEASING . . . GPO PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FIELD SONS & CO. LTD., BRADFORD. 51-3857. P.R.D. 310.
