Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Vchera i segodni︠a︡ / S. Marshak i V. Lebedev
Call Number
ManuscriptsQ 12280
Identifier
https://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2024/11/vera-smirnovas-optimistic-picture-book-komu-plokho-komu-khorosho-1930/
Publisher
Moskva ; Leningrad : Raduga, 1925.
Language
Russian
Date Created
1925
Extent
[16] pp. col. ill. 28.2 cm.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
First Edition.
Housed the original artwork for this book, Cotsen 12281.
"Important contribution to Russian picture-books for children, with "before" and "after" pictures of modern domestic life improved by technology: the candle, the oil lamp, and the light-bulb, the inkwell and the typewriter; the old oaken bucket and the charmingly efficient modern faucet and shower; on its cover is a parade of bent-over ancestors loaded with products of the past, below it the youthful proletarians (in color, naturally) brandishing modern appliances.
Binding Note
self wraps.

Discovery Information

Physical Characteristics

File Count
16

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a5547fe0-71db-4045-8871-c6700907a545/manifest