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Copyright/attribution: © P&O Heritage Collection
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Run away to sea!
AC/01746/00
Object category: POSTER
Date made: 1958 & 1966
Maker: HOLLYMAN, Tom
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Material/medium: Offset litho on paper
Dimensions:
- sheet: 101.6 x 63.5 cm; board: 101.6 x 63.5 cm
This poster was part of a campaign created originally by David Ogilvy (later Ogilvy & Mather)in 1958 for Orient & Pacific Lines and later revived to advertise P&O-Orient Lines and P&O Worldwide services. The campaign won the American Society of Travel Agents "Best of Convention" Award for 1958.
The young boy was four-year-old Anthony Ashbolt of Sydney and Orient Officer, Roy Cookman photographed by Tom Hollyman on board ORSOVA.