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title: Will You Give a Helping Hand Too?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-will-you-give-a-helping-hand-too-1939/
description: A handwritten letter from an evacuated mother says the baby is doing splendidly and that she is happy, and a photograph of a smiling woman holding
section: Collection
---

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[![Will You Give a Helping Hand Too?, 1939 UK poster: A handwritten letter from an evacuated mother says the baby is doing](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-will-you-give-a-helping-hand-too-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-will-you-give-a-helping-hand-too-1939.jpg)

# Will You Give a Helping Hand Too?

A handwritten letter from an evacuated mother says the baby is doing splendidly and that she is happy, and a photograph of a smiling woman holding an infant overlaps the page. The appeal for householders to offer billets rests on this first-person account of good treatment, and the page of the letter breaks off mid-sentence (testimonial).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Will you give a
helping hand too?

and baby is going
along splendidly.
I know you'll be glad
to hear that I'm very
happy here, everything
is being done to make
us feel at home, and
now they're trying
to organize
a club for

Your help is wanted. See your
local billeting officer NOW!

ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH

[printer's line:] Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd., London, W.C.1. [illegible]
```

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