Women's labor, Soviet Russian propaganda poster; lithograph in colors on paper, mounted on linen; foreground and right border images show women working on lathes; inset background panel in warm colors and white depicts men and women engaged in childcare, meal preparation, and clothes laundering; bold blocky modernist text, 28 1/4 x 20 in.

Two postcards by the artist Aleksei Komarov (1879-1977) that were issued by the Museum Exhibition for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy in Moscow. The postcards depict a colored illustration of a child with cyrillic text introducing basic rules of child care, such as giving a child boiled water without sugar during heatwaves. Each postcard contains a handwritten translation on the verso.