writing

The American Writers Congress
1981

Poster for the 1981 American Writers Congree. Poster has illustration of a sheet of lined notebook paper, with 8 logos for the even in blue, purple, pink, dark red, and green--at different sized...

NC Poetry Grand Slam
2004

Poster has a background printed in shades of orange, red, and yellow. At the center is a stylized green figure writing on paper. Centered at the top is a printed signature with "D&F Poetry"...

Kentucky is My Land
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black and yellow in printed on tan paper. Centered at the top is "Kentucky is my land / by Jesse Stuart / 1906 - 1984". At the top left and right are stylized images of corn and flowers...

Corazon Mexica
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. At the center is a collage of images of human figures (some in sombreros), birds, pyramids, a train engine, a butterfly, a skull and other images of...

Life Under tha Edjucashin Prezident
1991

Poster has black ink printed on white paper with an illustration of a soldier writing on bombs, with all of the text spelled incorrectly or with other errors, like backwards letters. At the top of...

Alfabetizacion Puertas Abiertas a la Vida
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a color photo of a boy reading and writing, with an image of a tree and the sky in the background. At the top is "alfabetizacion / puertas abiertas / a la vida" in white.

Premio Latinoamericano De Poesia Ruben Dario
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has an orange printed background. At the top left is "Premio / Latinoamericano / De Poesia / Ruben Dario" in black. Down the left is a list of guidelines for the poetry prize, printed in...

I Am Very Scared of the Things I See in This World...
1992

Poster printed on white paper with a central brown, purple, black and gray stylized image of a hand writing at the top and a typewriter at the bottom. In a strip of white at the top is "I am very...

Esperanza
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has brown and black text printed on thinning parchment paper. Centered at the top is "Esperanza" followed by an excerpt from "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, as identified at the bottom of the...

Esperanza
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has red and black text printed on thinning parchment paper. Centered at the top is "Esperanza" followed by an excerpt from "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, as identified at the bottom of the poster...

Joan Baez
1987

Poster printed on white paper. At the top is a stylized image of a bare tree. Down the length of the poster is black text in six paragraphs with "Joan C Baez" printed signature in blue at the...

UNHCR
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster printed on white paper. At the top is a color photo of a boy laying on a green bed writing on white paper, with a wall with torn floral wallpaper in the background. Centered at the bottom...

The American Voice
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This poster has a wide, white margin around a blue and red illustration of a woman sitting on a stool. She is naked except for a shawl draped over her shoulders and she is holding a paper with "...

Untitled
1983

Poster has a beige background with a thin green border .25" from the poster edge. Poster shows seven color illustrations - three rows of two and a final solitary photo at the bottom. Photos show,...

Watershed
2002

This horizontally-oriented poster features a poem with an illustrated frame containing images from nature as well as "Watershed" at the top and "nature" at the bottom. The poem is attributed to "...

Lust for Life: the life and writings of Kathy Acker
2002

Poster has a background image of a woman in black and white. Below is "Lust for Life/ The Life and writings of/ Kathy Acker/ A symposium oat the Fales Library/ New York University November 7...

Berkeley Writers for Peace
1970

Poster is printed with green text. At the top, text is printed in a semi-circular arch that reads "Berkeley Writers for Peace." Beneath the arched text is printed "Chapel Pacific School of...

Writer's Corner: Creative Writing Contest
c. 1970

Poster has a black and white autostereogram design at the top producing a 3-D like diamond shape. Below are small scribblings and sketches with text integrated into the design. Poster reads, "...

1992

This is an oil and alkyd painting on canvas. The composition is divided vertically in half by light paint on the right, and dark paint on the left. A double row of handprints are positioned...

1997

This is an oil and alkyd painting on canvas. Two-thirds of the canvas on the right side is painted with a red and green pattern of large X shapes, organic forms, and nested diamonds. A faux...

1948

From caption on back of photograph: "One of the nearly 400 birds who were banded during the feathered census at Lake Merritt yesterday is 'ringed' by E. B. von Adelung (left) and George Ehmann,...

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