work on paper

Amelia Earhart
1981

Poster shows Amelia Earhart standing on top of an airplane. Her name is printed above the image and filled in with a cloud pattern. Printed to the right of her name is "1897 to 1937."

Belva Lock Wood
1980

Poster has a portrait of Belva Lock Wood in blue ink against a red background. The years "1830 - 1917" are printed in blue font just above the proper left shoulder. Printed at the bottom of the...

Ch'iu Chin
1980

Poster has an image of Ch'iu Chin. Printed in blue font towards the bottom center of the poster is "Ch'iu Chin / Poet and Leader in the Struggle to Educate and Emancipate Women in China / 1875 -...

Luisa May Alcott
1979

The poster has a thin white border and a red background overall. The top edge of the poster has the text: "Louisa May Alcott / Nov. 25, 1832 - Mar. 6, 1888". The center of the poster has a large...

Marie Curie
1978

The top edge of the poster has the text: "Marie Curie Nov. 7, 1867 - July 4, 1934". Below the right side of the poster has a black and white photograph of a woman in a lab holding several glass...

Kate Chopin
1981

The poster has a purple background with a stylized drawing at top that shows a farm in the distance and a small figure riding a hourse. The upper right corner of the poster has the text: "I would...

Alice Paul: Author of the ERA
1977

The top of the poster has the text: "Alice Paul / Author of the ERA / January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977". The center of the poster has a stylized drawing. The drawing shows a female figure at right...

Make Love, Not War
n.d.

The poster has a large sepia photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt, she is wearing a beret and is touching her cheek with her left hand. Below the photograph, the bottom of the poster has the text: " '...

1992

The top of the poster has a stylized drawing of a large group of women standing in front of a wall with two windows through which can be seen blue sky and small puffy clouds. The lower left...

Phoolan De Vi
N.D.

Poster has a thin black border overall. The top edge of the poster has the text: "Phoolan De Vi / 'What Others Called A Crime, I Called Justice". The top of the poster has one small, stylized...

untitled (Greek Goddess of health statue)
n.d.

Poster has a turquoise background with an image along the left of a statue. The staute is of a woman holding a snake. On the right is a caption. It reads, "Although snakes are feared and hated in...

Louise Michel
N.D.

Poster is bounded by a thin purple line with rounded corners. The top of the poster has a black and white photograph of a woman from the neck up. The woman has dark hair and is looking off to her...

untitled (Egyptian queen statues)
n.d.

Poster has an image of two stone statues in the center with a brown background. Below the image is "Queen Meresankh III with her Mother Hetepheres II, Egyptian." Below is a poem: "Like a feather...

untitled (earth held up by a goddess)
n.d.

Poster has a turquoise background with small white dots. In the center is a drawing of an egyptian goddess with a lion's head holding up the earth with flames. Around the earth are two cresent...

untitled (The Daybreak poem)
n.d.

Poster has a drawing along the left side of the deity Monju-bosatsu riding on the bakc of a lion. Around her is a man and a woman. the lower right corner has "Monju-bosatsu, personification of...

untitled (Margaret Atwood poem)
n.d.

Poster has an image of a bas releif with a woman's head holding wheat stalks in each hand. The top edge of the bas relief is scalloped. Below is "Last year I abstained without guilt/ This year I...

untitled (bronze statue from Nigeria)
n.d.

Poster has a dark brown background with an image of a bronze statue with breasts in the center. The upper right has a poem. It reads, "If you do not come aprt like bread in her hands, whe fails...

untitled (Sappho poem)
n.d.

Poster has a drawing of two women in patterned dresses siggin on stools. They are passing a large goblet between them. The lower left has a caption that reads, "Cretan women sharing a goblet of...

Invocation to Markut, the bird of heaven
n.d.

Poster is printed in light tan paper with brown text and images. Along the bottom are two figures that have lion like bodies with large wings and human like heads and breasts. Above is a poem. It...

unitlted (Sappho poem)
n.d.

Poster has a turquoise drawing in the center of a woman shooting a bow and arrow. Behind her is a crescent shaped moon. On the left is a poem. It reads, "Awed by her splendor/ Stars near the...

"The Invocation to Kali"
n.d.

Poster has a brown and white image of Kali, a wooden sculpture from India in the center. The lower right reads, "Kali, be with us. Violence, destruction, receive our homage. Help us bring darkness...

untitled (Adolph Hitler quote) "The streets of our country are in turmoil..."
1970

Poster has a red background with white text. Below the text is a small upside down United States Flag. The poster reads, "The streets of our country are in turmoil. The Universities are filled...

untitled (Statue of Liberty behind bars)
ca 1970

Poster has a black drawing of the Statue of Liberty grasping two stripes of the United States Flag. The flag is drawn sideways on the poster making the stripes appear as jail cell bars. The blue...

American Imperialism
1975

Poster has a black border around a center yellow and red image. The image depicts a tree with no leaves and two men hanging from its branches. Above the top man is a large eagle. The lower left...

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