PP 388 | Poster Plakat

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**Poster Number:** PP 388

**Category:** Education & Literacy

**Poster Notes:** The building with the globe was built in 1904 for the Russian branch of Singer Sewing Machine and its offices were on the top floor. The building stands to this day on Nevskii Prospect, St. Petersburg's main avenue. In the early Soviet era, the Singer building housed the Petrograd State Publishing House as well as the city's largest bookstore *Dom Knigi* (House of Books).
[At right]
Literature. Works Of And About Lenin. Popular Science.
Agriculture. Fiction. Children’s Literature. Art

[Titles on books]
Emilyan Iaroslavskii: "The Life and Work of V.I. Lenin". “Star”
Popular Literature and Popular Science Magazine. "The
History of the Russian Communist Party" [by] Zinovev.
"V.I. Lenin". "Russia". "Letters of V.I. Lenin".
Textbooks For Schools. "Marxism-Leninism"

**Media Size:** 42x28

**Poster Type:** Lithograph and Offset

**Publishing Date:** c.1924

**Print Run:** 10,000

**Sources & Citation:** Carstensen, F. V. (1984). *American enterprise in foreign markets: Studies of Singer and International Harvester in Imperial Russia*. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 388 Education & Literacy

Artist: LAB — ЛАБ

Printer: 1st State Lithography Workshop, Leningrad (formerly Kibbel) — 1-я государственная литография, Ленинград

The 1st State Lithography had its roots in Imperial Russia. The St. Petersburg-based printing operation was founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel’) with just four printing presses. By the 1890s, Kibbel had opened a large workshop at 9 Kronverkskaia near the intersection of Mir Street. As a hub for the chromolithography production of posters, labels, cartons, and other ephemera; Kibbel ran one of the largest and most versatile printing operations in the Russian Empire. In...

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