teaching

don't throw your life away
1973

Poster titled "don''t throw your life away" with a color photograph of an old, dented metal garbage can. Background is gray.

dispense by a pharmacist
1973

Poster titled "dispensed by a pharmacist" with a color photograph of a person''s hand and wrist. Cuff of white jacket is showing. Hand is holding a prescription bottle filled with pills.

good drugs vs bad drugs
1973

Poster comparing "good drugs vs bad drugs." Photo at center has pencillin in a petri dish, a test, a syrings, and pink pills at left. At right, a poppy flower, a small syringe, powered drugs in...

what is a narcotic?
1973

Poster with a selection of drugs on a white background, including tobacco, cocaine poweder, a syrince, and a variety of pills. Text reads: "what is a narcotic? / A narcotic is a torpor producing...

drugs make you sick
1973

Poster with a teenage boy lying on the floor with his knees up and arms wrapped around his knees. Text reads: "drugs make you sick / Drugs hurt your body as well as your mind."

drugs put you out of it
1973

Poster with seven buttons on a white-gray background. Six button are yellow smiley faces. The seventh button is a blue frowny face.

drugs put you apart
1973

Poster with a color photograph of a family--father and mother holding their daughter--to the left. Off to the right is a teenage boy by himself looking sad.

drugs put you out of focus
1973

Poster with a color photograph with a distorted view of a boy''s face. Text in white reads: "drugs put you out of focus / Get it all together--live drug free."

Untitled
1973

Poster with color photograph of a doctor wearing a white jacket and a stethescope around his neck. Caption reads: "take care, respect your body."

Building for Tomorrow
1987

Poster shows four pencils (progressively larger in size from the left to the right) with blue, green, and purple confetti pieces all on a red background. Blue script text at the top reads "...

Teaching Respect for NAtive Peoples
2000

This poster features a black and white photograph of a girl holding a small bird on her finger in the right half of the page. The left half has a gray background and black text listing "Do''[s]"...

Teaching Respect for Native Peoples
1996

This is a white poster with a black and white, red-bordered photograph in the right two thirds of the upper half of the page. The photo depicts a girl with a small bird on her finger, which she is...

Chinese Americans
1997

Poster is teaching material and shows the history of Chinese in America, listing major celebrations, contributions, people, and times & places associated with Chinese Americans. Photos...

help children in Africa!
Early 21st Century

Poster shows African children sitting in a row, some with their thumbs up. Above the image is the text "save children" and below it is the text "in Africa!" The background of the rest of the...

11/15/83

This is a document for the U.S. Congressional Record, November 15, 1983. It honors McClymonds High School Alumni Honorees: George Powles, Dorothy M. Hinmarsh, and Mayor Lionel J. Wilson. It was...

05/30/72

This is Resolution No. 367 of the Senate Rules Committee of the Senate, California Legislature, by Senators Nicholas C. Petris and John W. Holmdahl, dated May 30, 1972 to honor George Powles.

05/26/72

This is Resolution No. 345, signed by the Honorables March K. Fong, Robert W. Crown, and Ken Meade, in reference to George Powles, honoring his work as a teacher and coach in the Oakland Public...

c. 1935

Small, eight page brochure of ivory colored paper, with a staple at the spine. "The Public Schools of Berkeley, California. Information for Applicants for Teaching Positions." Inside is "...

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