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This item consists of a set of 40 posters and an accompanying booklet. The posters are reproductions of posters related to the Russian Revolution and created in Russia between 1917 and 1929. They are loosely enclosed in a cover with the title, Posters of the Russian Revolution, 1917-1929, from the Lenin Library, Moscow. Also included is an accompanying booklet with the title, Russian Revolutionary Posters, 1917-1929, published in 1966 and written in English, which gives the translated titles of the posters, along with explanations and a history.

Images on the postcards depict several Ontario locations including: Alvinston, Balsam Lake, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Burleigh Falls, Burlington, Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes, Lakefield, Lindsay, Nogie’s Creek, Orono, the Otonabee River, Owen Sound, Peterborough, Whitby, and Young’s Point; also featured are local landmarks such as hospitals, churches, schools, stores, Jackson Park (Peterborough), Peterborough Lift Lock, and the Lift Lock (Victoria Road); one postcard features “Benjamin West’s Painting of William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians.” While some of the postcards are blank, many are addressed to various Grant family members; postmarks range from 1907 to 1949.