![Central image shows a factory scene with a prominent profile view of a factory woman, with arm outstretched towards rows of thread. At lower right corner, a photographic image shows rows of factory workers marching, holding red banners, and this image is placed in the poster to look as if the figures are coming off an assembly line. At left and right edges are red borders, imprinted vertically with Russian words in white: Mhdunarodnyi [left]; den rabotnits [right].]( https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/90757_4bb7b2de3c759b38_b.jpg
"Central image shows a factory scene with a prominent profile view of a factory woman, with arm outstretched towards rows of thread. At lower right corner, a photographic image shows rows of factory workers marching, holding red banners, and this image is placed in the poster to look as if the figures are coming off an assembly line. At left and right edges are red borders, imprinted vertically with Russian words in white: Mhdunarodnyi [left]; den rabotnits [right].")
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Poster, International Women Workers Day, 1930
This is a Poster. It is dated 1930 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In the Russian language, the words “red” and “beautiful” share an etymological root. This photomontage propaganda poster promoting a political rally highlights the importance of red to Soviet identity. It features women at work in the textile industry wearing the red headscarves associated with socialist pioneers.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
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- lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Merrill C. Berman in honor of Ellen Lupton.
- 2014-20-5
- Porcelain Factory Worker Figure, 1929
- porcelain (bisque), enamel.
- The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
- 1989-41-161
- Woman Spinning Cup And Saucer, ca. 1930
- porcelain, enamel, gilding.
- The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
- 1989-41-78-a,b
Our curators have highlighted 8 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Poster, Russian Youth Perspective, 1976
- offset lithograph on white paper.
- Gift of Unknown Donor.
- 1980-32-1240
- Land for the Working People Plate, 1919
- glazed and enameled porcelain.
- The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
- 1989-41-9
- Seamstress Embroidering a Banner Figure, 1920
- enameled and gilt porcelain.
- The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
- 1989-41-210
Its dimensions are
108.3 x 71.6 cm (42 5/8 x 28 3/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed on verso: 0 [with a diagonal slash through it]
Cite this object as
Poster, International Women Workers Day, 1930; Russia; lithograph on paper; 108.3 x 71.6 cm (42 5/8 x 28 3/16 in.) ; Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn; 1992-164-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.
