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Run away to sea by P&O-Orient Lines
AC/04079/00
Object category: POSTER
Date made: 1961-1964
Maker: HOLLYMAN, Tom
Shipping Line:
Material/medium: Offset lithograph printed on paper, laid on board
Dimensions:
- sight: 99.7 x 61.6 cm; outside frame: 102 x 64 cm
This poster was part of a campaign created originally in 1958 by David Ogilvy (later Ogilvy & Mather) for the Orient Line and later revived to advertise P&O-Orient Lines and P&O Worldwide services. The young boy was four-year-old Anthony Ashbolt of Sydney and P&O Officer, Roy Cookman photographed by Tom Hollyman on board ORSOVA.