cannon

Nicaragua
1982

Poster has white unprinted edges enclosing a stylized, multicolor image of a plaza with a fountain and cannon. At the bottom left is "Nicaragua / un pais que se descubre inturismo" in white. At...

untitled (people trapped below cannon)
1978

Poster has a stylized black and white image of a large cannon with people trapped below its platform with pens, paper, and briefcases. Lounging on the cannon is a figure in uniform and a US hat,...

untitled (man and cannon)
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a green printed background with a white cloud at the left. In the cloud, a man in a blue uniform is placing cannonballs with white foreign text on them into a cannon. Below the image is...

Untitled
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has an unprinted white border all around. Background image shows a black cannon on a pile of red coins with white ckouds and a bright blue sky in the background. In the sky at the top is "...

Cinco de Mayo
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Multi-color poster shows an image of a man riding a horse at center in front of the Mexican flag. The man wears a blue and yellow outfit with a sombrero and holds a sword in the air. "Cinco de...

c. 1862

Tooth of sperm whale, scrimshaw. Examined by Desmond Liddy, Australian scrimshaw expert June 6, 1991. He identifies it as a killer whale tooth. Quite a bit was cut off of the root end with a saw....

ca. 1908

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(G. Weininger 4/2002, from DeWitt Jones, Oakland Parks and Playgrounds, 1935):

City Hall Park was a triangular plaza near City Hall, bounded by 14th St., Washington...

c.1937

A cast toy cannon, made of lead and cast by Herbert Towler as a child in Oakland. "...Although molds came in various versions: Boy Scouts, airplane, foot soldier and soldier on horseback, I...

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