Lot 8874
Five Victorian educational banners printed for the Working Men's Educational Union, lithograph on co...
Five Victorian educational banners printed for the Working Men's Educational Union, lithograph on cotton, including 'Fighting Chiefs' no. 15, 'NZ Blind Ch' (New Zealand Blind Cheif) no. 11, 'Ind Fak Swing' (Indian Fakia Swing) no. 6, 'Mission India' no. 31 and 'Briton First Missionary' no. 1, four bearing stamp "Published by Working Men's Educational Union 43 Skinner Street, Snow Hill, London 1852" and one stamped "24 and 25 King William Street, Trafalgar Square, London" titled in ink verso, some with brass eyelets for hanging, 117cm x 90cm max
The Working Men’s Educational Union was a philanthropic society established in 1832 with the objective of “the elevation of the working classes, as regards their physical, intellectual, moral and religious condition”. Their chief means of achieving this was to encourage popular literary and scientific lectures “by preparing suitable diagrams and other aids to lectures.”
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SOLD £170