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Jane Addams Book Award Philadelphia Resistance Print Shop ~ print shop c. 1965 The poster has from top to bottom. A drawing of a dove holding a red laurel branch in its mouth, trailing behind the branch is the text: "children's books / that build for peace". Below is a...	Nicaragua Week: The Reconstruction: A Week of Awareness La Raza Graphics ~ print shop, N. Hart ~ artist c. 1980 Poster has an image of an open book in the top center area. The left page of the book is blue with an image in the center of two children. The right page of the book is red and black with a shovel...
Anarchist Book Fair, NYC Josh MacPhee, Keven Caplicki ~ artist 2007 Poster has several brown and white hands holding up books. The books from left to right clockwise: red cover with "Saturday April 14 2007 11AM-7PM at Judson Memorial 55 Washington Square South";...	Third Annual Lesbian Writers Conference Chicago, Illinois Chicago Women's Graphics Collective 1976 Small poster with a background that fades from orange to purple. In yellow are images of books burning in a fire. At the top in black is, "...and the men ask, 'Where is your Shakespeare?'" and "'...
I am the Door Lawerence Ferlinghetti American Newsrepeat Company ~ publisher, Ernest Lowe ~ photographer 1967 Poster has a black and white photograph of Lawrence Ferlinghetti standing next to a light colored fence. He is wearing a hat and is holding his lapel with both hands. The fence has "I am the door...	Lucia Reading\|Lucia Mathews in Pink Kimono\|Lucia Reading (Portrait of Lucia K. Mathews in Pink Kimono) Arthur Mathews \| Lucia Mathews c. 1899 This is an oil painting on canvas of a woman dressed in a pink kimono sitting in a dark room. She appears at center in the composition reading a book and is painted in profile facing right.
snuff bottle stopper 1975	La Mode Illustree Bureaux du Journal \| Paris, France 1884 Fashion print from 1884. Image depicts 6 girls playing croquet in a park/garden. "Reproduction interdite" is printed in the lower left corner, "Leroy.imp.Paris" is printed in the center...
photograph Michael Macor ~ photographer \| Oakland Tribune \| Oakland 12/15/89 Handwritten on back, "Richmond Boys Club. Jamaal Cotright - 11 has been coming to the club for 6 years, since the club opened." Image depicts Cotright standing next to a sign with the date of the...	photograph Matthew J. Lee ~ photographer \| Oakland Tribune \| Oakland 1/7/92 Handwritten on back, "D'borah Peters at the Alameda County Law Library." Image depicts Peters standing on second floor of the library, many shelves of books below her.
Untitled Leo Cohen ~ photographer \| Oakland Tribune \| Oakland 3/13/72 From the caption that ran with the image: "St. Mary's Students Slept In Chapel : Vow to remain on 'water fast' until demands are met." Image depicts 6 students sleeping in...	photograph Dexter Dong ~ photographer \| Oakland Tribune \| Oakland 11/27/89 Typed on back: "This teddy bear dating to the 1930's is one of several on display at the Hayward Museum." Below this is the caption that ran with the image: "This teddy bear...
tape measure c. 1870-1900 tape measure. Description: book-shaped tape measure of leather, blue with "gold", tan, rose, and light blue floral motif on front cover; white tape printed in inches on one side and the metric...	tape measure 20th century Tape measure made in the form of a book. Tooled maroon leather is stretch over the cradboard form that creates the book and its curved spine. Simulated "pages" have gilt edges. There is dark...
The War in Vietnam: a Bibliography The Vietnam Day Committee ~ Berkeley ~ publisher 20th century A list of reading on the war in Vietnam, consisting of categories titled: "General History, Backgrounds of the War and The War and United States Involvement."	Durst Gives Books to Library Palmer Moore ~ photographer \| Laney Tower ~ publisher 1971 Photograph showing R. Gonzales holding and looking at an open book with English instructor Martin Durst who has donated a large collection of books to the Laney College Library.
Interior of Library, Pomona, Cal. Newman Post Card Co. \| Los Angeles \| Germany Postcard of the interior of a library in Pomona. Greek columns line the walls of one of the library's rooms. A Greek-style statue stands in the foreground. A few of the library's bookshelves...	Pussies and Puppies London \| Dean's Rag Book Co., Ltd. c.1950 Child's linen book, with a spine stitched in yellow. Cover printed in red with a dog in a drum on the front cover, "Pussies and Puppies." Kitten and yarn on the back cover.
Good News Laney College \| Oakland 1983 One periodical, "Good News: A Publication of The Laney College Faculty," $1, Volume 7/Spring 1983. The publication contains many poems, articles and illustrations; the cover (white, printed in...	book China c.1930s-1950s Paper bound book used by sisters Bette and Peggy Chinn when they were students at the Chinese School in Oakland. The school was located at 9th and Harrison in the first free public Chinese...
photograph 1898 Facsimile photograph of a log cabin in the Klondike (Alaska), showing Marshall Bond & his dog "Buck," hero of "The Call of the Wild." Also shows signature of Jack London, (which was signed 10...	photograph 1970 A group of children is inside a van reading and looking at books. The van is called a "bookmobile," and, according to the information on the back of the photo, a part of the Oakland Acorn...
photograph Ron Riesterer ~ photographer \| Oakland Tribune 1970 A Lincoln School Class is posed formally in three rows in the Boys and Girls Room of the Oakland Public Libary. The class is composed mostly of Asian American children, with a few African...	photograph Kenneth Green 1970 Four children are squeezed into the back of a van, called a "bookmobile." reading, and showing, books for the camera "to see." The bookmobile is part of the Library's outreach program, which...