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Poster of the Week
"State Publishing House: Books on All Branches of Knowledge. Literature; Works of and About Lenin; Popular Science; Agriculture; Fiction; Children’s Literature; Art." [Titles on books] "Emilian Iaroslavskii: the Life and Work of V.I. Lenin"; “Star”; "Popular Literature and Popular Science Magazine"; "History of the Russian Communist Party" [by] Zinovev; "V.I. Lenin"; "Letters of V.I. Lenin"; "Russia"; "Textbooks For Schools."; "Marxism-Leninism", etc.
Featured on this poster is the "Singer Building" that was built in 1904 for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in St. Petersburg. Its offices were located on the top floor and for a time, the U.S. Embassy was on the ground floor. Starting in the 1920s, the building was home to the Petrograd State Publishing House and it housed the city's largest bookstore, Dom Knigi (House of Books). Today, the building remains on Nevskii Prospect in St. Petersburg and its ground floor is still occupied by Dom Knigi.
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About The Collection
Poster Plakat is a private collection of Soviet and Eastern Bloc political ephemera spanning 1916 to 1991. The collection contains over 1,000 original posters and poster maquettes. Sizes range from windowpane posters up to large, multi-panel broadsides. Numerous artists are represented such as Gustav Klutsis, Victor Deni, Nikolai Dolgorukov, Vladimir Stenberg, the Kukryniksy, Viktor Koretsky, and hundreds more. All posters are linen backed and ready for display.
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