PP 704 | Poster Plakat

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**Poster Number:** PP 704

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** This regional poster was part of a series for the "Take Care of Army Property Week", a campaign from late 1921.

**Media Size:** 28.5x23

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1921

**Technical Information on Poster:** Publication No. 106

**Print Run:** 3,000

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 358, poster 2146

**Catalog Notes:** PP 704 Civil War b; Sister poster PP 144

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 Chromolithography Workshop, Tver —

Publisher: State Publishing House, Tver' — Государственное издательство, Тверь

The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. As the Red Army controlled more provinces and cities in former Imperial Russia, the State Publishing House developed offices outside St. Petersburg. Tver is a city northwest of Moscow at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa rivers. From 1931 to 1990, the city was called Kalinin in honor of the Bolshevik leader Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, as he was ...

Away with negligence, dissoluteness, indifference and a negligent relationship to your gear!...