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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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 × 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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Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster depicting a man dressed half in an army uniform, and half in civilian clothes, with the slogan: ‘This Soldier Could Be Standing Next To You. Watch What You Say’

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Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster with the slogan, ‘Join the volunteer soldiers of the Belfast Brigade’

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster depicting police brutality beneath the caption, ‘RUC Out’

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster calling for the British Army to bring accused to trail in Northern Ireland

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster depicting a paramilitary holding a rifle, children, and the slogan, ‘Victory to the IRA 1974’

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Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster depicting a drawing of a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march

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