item details
NamePoster, 'Nelson Mandela'
ProductionInternational Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa; publisher; 1978; United Kingdom
Classificationposters, political posters
Materialspaper, ink, plastic
Techniquesprinting, laminating
DimensionsOverall: 428mm (width), 606mm (height)
Registration NumberGH016055
Credit lineGift of John Minto, 2008
Overview
This poster commemorates the publication of a collection of writing and speeches by Nelson Mandela which first appeared in 1978 while he was in prison, and was published by the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa on the occasion of Mandela's sixtieth birthday (he was born in 1918).
The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa was the brain-child of John Collins, a canon of St Paul's Cathedral, London. In 1965, it had branches in Britain, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Holland and India.