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10. Will you give a helping hand too? [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1939 and 1945]
Call Number:: Poster0575
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Date derived from dates of World War II. The first evacuation of children from British cities was in 1939., Below title: Your help is wanted. See your local billeting officer now!, Below image: Issued by the Ministry of Health., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: Printed for H.M. Stationery Office and J. Weiner Ltd. London, W.C.I. 51-22.
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Topic):: World War, 1939-1945, Children, Evacuation of civilians, Mothers, and Correspondence
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Will you give a helping hand too? [graphic].

11. [America] [to] her [mis]taken [moth]er [graphic].

Published / Created:: [12 May 1794]
Call Number:: 794.05.12.54
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: "A 'hieroglyphic letter' or rebus in answer to the foregoing. America (l.), as a Red Indian woman, seated and leaning to the left.; she holds a flag with thirteen vertical stripes in her left hand, in her right. she holds out a fleur-de-lys. Beside her is an oval shield on which are thirteen stars."(America) (toe) her (Miss)taken (Moth)er. (Yew) s(eye)lly (old woman) t(hat) (yew) have sent a (lure) (toe) us is very (plane) (toe) draw our at(ten)-t(eye)on from our re(awl) (eye)ntrests (butt) we are determ(eye)n'd (toe) ab(eye)de by our own ways of th(eye)nk(eye)ng (Ewer) [your] 5 (child)ren (yew) have sent (toe) us sh(awl) (bee) treated as V(eye)s(eye)tors, & safely sent home aga(eye)n (yew) may [? carved bracket] t them & adm(eye)re them, (butt) (yew) must (knot) (X)pect I of (ewer) (puppet)s w(eye)ll (comb) [come] home (toe) (yew) as sweet as (yew) sent h(eye)m, twas cruel toe send so pretty a (man) so many 1000 miles & (toe) have the fat(eye)gue of re[t](urn)ing back after (spike?)(eye)ng h(eye)s (coat) & d(eye)rt(eye)ng [dirting] t[hose] red (heel) (shoes) (eye)f (yew) are w(eyes) follow (ewer) own ad(vice) (yew) gave (toe) me take home ewer (ships) sold(eye)(ears) [soldiers] guard (well) (ewer) own tr(eye)fl(eye)(ling ?) [a fish]. & leave me (toe) my self as (eye) am at age (toe) know my own (eye)ntrests. w(eye)thout (ewer) (fool)(eye)sh ad(vice) & know t(hat) (eye) sh(awl) (awl)ways regard (yew) & my Brothers as relat(eye)ons (butt) (knot) as fr(eye)nds. (Eye) (am) (ewer) (grate)fy (eye)njured Daughter Amer(eye)k.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: America to her mistaken mother
Description:: Title from first line of text., A letter in form of rebus. The following words within title are represented by a rebus: America by a figure of an American Indian ; to by a toe ; 'mis' in 'mistaken' by an image of a girl ; 'moth' in 'mother' by an image of a moth., Reissue of a print originally published on 11 May 1778 by M. Darly. Cf. No. 5475 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below., and '9' in publication year erased and changed in contemporary hand to '8'.
Publisher:: Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Indians of North America, Correspondence, and Hieroglyphics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [America] [to] her [mis]taken [moth]er [graphic].