Vegetable Garden at Tower of London ca. 1870-1900

An exterior view of the Tower of London showing Middle Tower with guards and a vegetable garden in the foreground.
Photographer: York and Son
Larger image here.
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Cultivate vegetables! Soviet poster ca. 1930

Cultivate vegetables!
A. Kuznetsova, A. Magitson, ca. 1930
Publisher: AChR, Moscow
Workers are encouraged to cultivate vegetables near factories. On the poster, a realistic still life is combined with a modern constructivist background. It is issued by the publishing company of AChR, the Association of Revolutionary Artists. This organization is the main promotor of Socialist Realism and develops a stranglehold on the visual arts.
From the International Institute of Social History.
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The vegetables are green, the cucumbers plump, the yield is abundant

Jin Meisheng
1959, February
The vegetables are green, the cucumbers plumb, the yield is abundant
Cailü guafei chanliang duo
Great Leap Forward (1956-1960)
In the three years of crop failures and famine following the Great Leap Forward, this poster with its abundant food is reprinted over and over again. The total number of copies runs to over a million.
From Chinese Posters Net.
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