Chairman Mao visits a homemade blast furnace

毛主席参观土高炉
Mao zhuxi canguan tu gaolu
Chairman Mao visits a homemade blast furnace
1958, November
Changjiang wenyi chubanshe (长江文艺出版社)
53.5x76 cm.
PC-1958-007

Mao visiting a backyard furnace, where used iron is melted down to produce steel in one of the (disastrous) campaigns of the Great Leap Forward. On the blackboard is a graph showing a rise in production. 

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