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[On the top] The place where cooperation is not respected [On the bottom] The place where cooperation works.

Poster Number: PP 774
Category: Industry
Poster Notes:

[On the left-hand store sign at top panel]
Goods of Merchant (Kupets) E.P. Gorlanov

[On the right-hand store sign at top panel] Grain Silo

[On the left-hand store sign at bottom panel]
Consumer Association

[On the green roof at bottom panel]
Storage of the Cooperative

[On the right side at bottom panel]
The House of Reading

Media Size: 45х31.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: c.1924
Glavlit Directory Number: 62951
Catalog Notes: PP 774 Industry b
Artist: Fester, I. — Фестер, И.
Printer: Typolithography of Geokartprom of the V.T.U. (Military Topographic Directorate of the Soviet Army), Moscow — Типо-Литография Геокартпрома В.Т.У. (Военно-топографическое управление), Москва
In 1918, the Soviets nationalized the Moscow printing works of brothers Wilhelm Theodor Mehnert and Herman Julius Mehnert at 9 Bol'shaia Polianka (later named Soviet Street). The building housing the printer was first occupied by the Julius Kirsten printing firm. Upon its nationalization, the Soviets placed Mehnert printing under Geokartprom, a State-owed trust of the Commissariat of Defense that centralized government-mapping projects. Geokartprom printed atlases and maps solely for military and government use. While it did map ...
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Publisher: Tsentrosoiuz (Central Union of Consumers' Societies) — Центросоюз
MSPO (Moscow Central Union of Consumers' Societies) was established in 1898 and it gained significant membership throughout Imperial Russia after 1907. After its reorganization by the Soviet government, MSPO became part of an association of consumer unions and its name was changed to the Central Union of Consumers' Societies (Tsentrosoiuz). In May 1921, Tsentrosoiuz became the single government agency responsible for distribution of wholesale consumer goods in the country.
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