Conrad Atkinson

Colour photograph of a poster depicting an SS soldier and the slogan: ‘Dear Heinrich, your chaps are alive and well and doing a jolly fine job in the British Army’

[c.1975]

Conrad Atkinson, ‘Colour photograph of a poster depicting an SS soldier and the slogan: ‘Dear Heinrich, your chaps are alive and well and doing a jolly fine job in the British Army’’ [c.1975] — © Conrad Atkinson & © reserved

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Created by: Conrad Atkinson born 1940
Title: Colour photograph of a poster depicting an SS soldier and the slogan: ‘Dear Heinrich, your chaps are alive and well and doing a jolly fine job in the British Army’
Date: [c.1975]
Medium: Colour photograph
Dimensions: 118 x 181 mm
Description: Originally filed in a plastic wallet containing a post-it note annotated with, '25, £1500'.
Format: Photograph - print
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Purchased by Tate Archive from Margaret Harrison, November 2010.
Reference: TGA 201020/3/47

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Colour photograph of a poster depicting an SS soldier and the slogan: 'Dear Heinrich, your chaps are alive and well and doing a jolly fine job in the British Army' TGA 201020/3/47

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Conrad Atkinson

Colour photograph of a poster depicting an SS soldier and the slogan: ‘Dear Heinrich, your chaps are alive and well and doing a jolly fine job in the British Army’

[c.1975]

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