PP 695 | Poster Plakat

Look! Learn! Build a new economy! 1st Agricultural Handicraft Manufacturing and Industrial Exhibition of the USSR

**Poster Number:** PP 695

**Category:** Events

**Poster Notes:** This poster was created for the All-Russian Agricultural and Industrial Crafts Exhibition that opened in August 1923 in Moscow. While it was planned four years prior to 1923, it was two years behind schedule in opening.

**Media Size:** 43.5x31

**Poster Type:** Lithograph and Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1923

**Technical Information on Poster:** No. 223

**Print Run:** 3,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** 7224

**Catalog Notes:** PP 695 Events

Artist: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник

The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

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Printer: State Typography Workshop named for Ivan Fedorov, Leningrad — Государственная типография имени Ивана Федорова, Ленинград

The State Typography Workshop named for Ivan Fedorov was located at 11 Zvenigorodskaia Street in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Ivan Fedorov (c.1525-1583) is historically referred to as the first Russian printer. From 1902 to 1918, the printing workshop was owned by Roman Golike and Artur Vil’borg. After being nationalized shortly after the October Revolution, the printer became the 15th State Typogaphy. In 1922, the workshop was assigned to the printing trust of Petropechat', and was named in honor of...

Look! Learn! Build a new economy! 1st Agricultural Handicraft Manufacturing and Industrial Exhibition of the USSR