"banner, Workers of Ivanovo" [NBS I/D 407]

Catalogue Number
NBS I/D 407

Object Name
banner

Title
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! [repeated in cyrillic script] - C.C.C.P.

Place
Ivanovo & Russia & Soviet Union; USSR

Date
c. 1950?

Creator(s)
NBS National Museum of Labour HistoryNBS National Museum of Labour History

Description
Images on Front
No


Images on Back
No


Notes
Image on front: gold lettering on red ground. Large and elaborate emblem in centre, including hammer and sickle. Image on back: gold lettering on red ground. Image: Copyright & courtesy of National Museum of Labour History. Copying of images is strictly prohibited.

[These were made by the hundreds in the USSR from the 30s to 60s for presentation to foreign groups of workers. The South Wales Miners' Library has na early miners one. Bob Edwards (this is from his collection) was heavily involved in the Chemical Workers Union and I suspect that Ivanovo was a chemical town in Russia. The Accession Register says it relates to the Spanish Civil War, which is wrong. Edwards did fight there but for POUM. NM]

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