2010.54.2031

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Stop the Killing!
Stop the Killing!
c 1972
22.25 in HIGH x 16.75 in WIDE
(56.51 cm HIGH x 42.54 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.2031

Bottom left corner has "Published by Lorin Gillette box 15125 san francisco 94115."





Poster has a photograph of a San Francisco street corner at Market and Ninth street. On the right is a building with a large Bank of America sign sticking off the corner with a United States flag next to it. In the background is a large billboard with "We'll pay you $288 a month to kill. Todays' Army wants to join you." The top edge of the poster has a small White House and United States flag graphic repeated along the edge. The bottom of the poster reads, "Stop the Killing!" This poster of a simple yet powerful billboard alteration that subverts the original Army recruiting message "We'll pay you $288 a month to learn a skill." [LMC]
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