The cooperative has come to deliver goods

合作社送货来啦
Hezuoshe songhuo lai la
The cooperative has come to deliver goods
1954, November
Shanghai huapian chubanshe (上海画片出版社)
53.5x77.5 cm.
PC-1954-004

An open-air market in the countryside. The poster is packed with details, as usual with designer Zhang Yuqing. A woman under the red banner of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative (供銷合作社) makes announcements over the PA system to attract customers. The man in the foreground looks at a pesticide sprayer, the woman in the center has bought cloth, the children are attracted by the table with comic books (连环画 - lianhuanhua), the woman buying shoes carries a baby with a peace dove on its jumper. The boat on the left is loaded with sacks of grain and has a flag with the slogan "Sell surplus grain to the nation" (把餘粮賣給國家). The wooden box on the table on the left contains Workers-Peasants Soap (工农肥皂).