Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Soviet society would make women heroes, celebrating motherhood and giving women new occupations such as architects or machinists. They would raise their children in modern planned housing developments.
Call Number
A South 04/Drawer 06/GC091/Elephant Folio GA 2010.01182
Identifier
ark:/88435/ns064g56z
Publisher
1934.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1934
Extent
1 item ; sheet 23 1/2 x 34 3/8 in..
Source Acquisition
Gift of Oliver Langenberg, Princeton University Class of 1935.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Unidentified Artist [illustrator]
Medium: Lithographs
Item description: From a group of Russian propaganda posters that were collected in the summer of 1934 by Oliver Langenberg (Princeton Class of 1935) and three college friends, who were traveling through the Soviet Union, observing first-hand the early attempts of the Soviet government to build a new society that would be a "workers paradise."
Depiction: Woman with a baby held aloft, with vignette scenes of work at the bottom.

Discovery Information

Subject
Propaganda, Communist—Soviet Union—Specimens
Soviet Union—History—19171936—Posters
Soviet Union—Social conditions—19171936—Posters
Political posters, Soviet—Specimens
Printed ephemera—Soviet Union—Specimens
Ephemera—20th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
{@id=https://bibdata.princeton.edu/locations/delivery_locations/13}
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c43ea79a-b193-40d8-bb11-8ae4cdb5845e/manifest