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Poster with a photograph of women and a child with a bright yellow background, red text above and below
Poster with two photographs on top and bottom, text captions below each
Poster with two photographs on top and bottom, text captions below each
Poster with two photographs on top and bottom, text captions below each
Poster featuring an image of a women wearing a long-sleeved red shirt is shown at a table, a pen in her right hand and poster with Chinese characters in her left. Behind her, others paste completed signs on a wall. Text below
Poster featuring an image of two parents, a young adult, and a child stand close together all smiling. A large red decoration is pinned to the jacket of the young adult. The child holds a spray of flowers and wears a red bandanna. A throng of people in the background wave red flags. Text below
Poster showing an image of smiling workers are shown, one holding a sheaf of grain and a hand scythe, another holding a wrench in one hand with his other arm stretched above his head, palm open. There is a field of wheat in the foreground and a factory and cranes in the background. Text below
Poster featuring an image of a barefoot doctor sitting at a table discusses family planning program with leaders of the production brigade in the commune. Text below
A poster with four vertical images of people working, studying, and taking care of their child; text on top and bottom
Poster with a plum-colored background features a smiling woman holding a booklet in one hand and a medicine or vitamin bottle in the other. Surrounding the woman are images of adults interacting with children including dancing, playing, and exercising
Poster featuring the image of a family at home
Poster with a main image of a rural family, blue sky behind them, red title below
Poster with the image of a happy family of two children; father is helping his daughter study while the mother holds the baby, red text below
Poster of red text on a light blue background, on the bottom edge is a landscape view of a factory and floral decorative border
Poster with a red title on top and an image of a mother holding up her child into the sky
Poster with red title on top and series of rectangular images on a light blue background
Poster with red title on top and series of rectangular images on a light orange background
Poster with blue title at the bottom and a main image of a woman and two men, a field in the background
Poster with red title on top and series of rectangular images on a light blue background
Poster with red title on bottom and main image showing a male farmer and a woman at a table with microscope and specimen
Poster featuring an image of a Russian lady wearing a fur coat with her child in a stroller. On the left are images of mothers feeding, bathing, and dressing their children. Text on top and next to the images
Poster of a Russian mother spoon feeding her child, text in the top right corner, and title below
Poster with main image on top and title in red below

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Poster featuring an image of a women wearing a long-sleeved red shirt is shown at a table, a pen in her right hand and poster with Chinese characters in her left. Behind her, others paste completed signs on a wall. Text below

破旧立新，移风易俗 (Study the theory and grasp the party line: practice family planning for the consolidation of proletarian rule), ca. 1970s

破旧立新，移风易俗 (Study the theory and grasp the party line: practice family planning for the consolidation of proletarian rule), China, Author Unknown, ca. 1970s

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Poster featuring an image of a women wearing a long-sleeved red shirt is shown at a table, a pen in her right hand and poster with Chinese characters in her left. Behind her, others paste completed signs on a wall. Text below

In the 1970s the success of Chinese family planning campaigns was integral to the success of other revolutionary goals. This unknown poster series provides highly charged political imagery of family planning.

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Poster featuring an image of two parents, a young adult, and a child stand close together all smiling. A large red decoration is pinned to the jacket of the young adult. The child holds a spray of flowers and wears a red bandanna. A throng of people in the background wave red flags. Text below
志在农村 (Having children according to plan leaves parents with more time and energy to teach their children. The nation and the working unit can also properly arrange their work and study to make them well-educated workers for socialism), ca. 1970s
Poster showing an image of smiling workers are shown, one holding a sheaf of grain and a hand scythe, another holding a wrench in one hand with his other arm stretched above his head, palm open. There is a field of wheat in the foreground and a factory and cranes in the background. Text below
多快好省地建设社会主义 (Population increase must be planned along with economic planning. Late marriage and birth control benefit socialist planned economy and socialist reconstruction to increase people's material and cultural lives), ca. 1970s