1938 Košice exhibition

20.5x30cm placard of the Exhibition of the Eastern Part of Czechoslovakia held in the summer of 1938 in Košice on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic.The exhibition's aim was to promote the progress that Slovakia, and especially its eastern part, has achieved in the two decades of the state's existence and was divided into five sections 1. Czechoslovak State, 2. Slovak Country, 3. Land and People, 4. Technology and Industry, 5. Culture. The exhibition also included expositions of nearly two hundred private companies and tradesmen. In the critical situation in which the republic found itself, the exhibition was also meant to strengthen the people's patriotic spirit and the determination to defend the country's independence. Designed by the artist Pavel Korbelář.