prison

Tear Down the Walls
2002

Poster printed with brown and black ink on white paper. The page contains a brown and black photograph shot looking down the center of a spiral of barbed wire at the top of a prison fence. "Tear...

ADPSR
2005

Poster has a black, red and white background with black and white text. Central image is of a silhouette of a person with his/her arms reaching upward against a red background with different...

Jail Is Just A Kind Of Warehouse For Poor People.
c. 1976

Poster has a white background with black text. In the center is a drawing of a well dressed individual, with an American flag behind him, carrying a locked cage with several faces behind the bars...

A Show of Prison Art: Rogues Gallery
Late 20th Century

Poster has a white background with red text. At the top is a multi-colored and intertwined image of a man painting and a prison with watchtowers visible. At the bottom poster reads, "A Show of...

Circa 1974

Top of poster has the text: "No Amnesty..". Below is an image of Richard M. Nixon located between vertical black bars on a green and yellow background. The bottom of the poster has the...

Why Must Black People Look At Each Other Through Prison Bars?
1971

The top edge of the drawing has the text: "Why Must Black People / Look At Each Other Through Prison Bars? Where Is Our Freedom?". Below is a drawing of a male figure in red and blue clothing he...

Celebrate Women's Resistance
1988

Poster has a green border with a purple background and white text. Across the top border is "International Women's Day 1988" in purple. Below is a drawing of black bars being pulled apart by two...

Word-Play
ca 1970

Poster shows an older man using a typewriter on the left side of the poster. On the right side of the poster is text printed in green on a yellow background. The text reads "Word-Play / I / Take...

Prison Diary / Ho Chi Minh
1969

Poster has a large black and white photographic portrait of Ho Chi Minh. The photograph is surrounded by two half inch black borders. Below the photo at the bottom of the poster is the text: "...

Achtung! Some ideas have to die.
2006

Poster has black background and white border overall. Top edge of poster has text: "Achtung!". Below is a large photograph of a Nazi flag. Above the top left corner of the flag is the text: "Some...

2003

Poster has a light blue outline of a bowling scorecard at the top. Over the card in large orange lettering is "Bowl Down the Prisons." Below in orange and blue is "The 5th annual bowl-a-thon to...

1974

Small white poster with purple text and image. In the center is a half circle background with three squares on either side. In the squares are the women's symbol with a fist in the center. The...

n.d.

Poster has a red outline of a prison building with an open gate. Opening the gate is a man in blue clothing with a chain around one wrist. The gate has text printed in red on it. The text reads, "...

Vacaville
c. 1975

Poster has a black and white drawing of a head in the center. The head has geometric shaped tattoos on its cheeks, and a hole at the top of the skull. Over the head is red splotches. Above the...

Free Marilyn Buck
2002

Small poster that has a red background with an outline of white barbed wire fence. On the right is a black and white photograph of Marilyn Buck's head. The poster reads, "Free Marilyn...

Rally Against Racism & Repression
1973

Poster has a black and white drawing of a chain as a border around the center text. The center of the poster has brown and white drawings of four people chained together. The top person is a...

c. 1970

Poster is printed on white paper and has an image of a purple guitar crossing a purple gun with a green marijuana plant in front of them. On the left of the guitar is a purple fist in front a box...

Rock: Asthetik und Kommunikation
c. 1978

Poster has a large stylized drawing of a male figure from the shoulders up. The figure has his eyes closed and mouth open wide, as if singing or screaming. In the open mouth of this figure there...

circa 1971

Poster has a black background with a white circle in the center. In the circle is "Unity is the solution" printed in red. Above reads in white, "from the prisoners of Attica State...

1971

Poster has a large image in the center of a man's face looking through prison cell bars. He has blood dripping on his forehead. Below is "Remember" printed in red and "Attica" printed in black....

1977

Poster has a border of a black and white chain around a red background. In the center are two black and white hands with "CAPS" printed in red lettering underneath. On the right is white text. It...

1974

Small poster with a blue and red drawing of a man reaching his clenched fist through jail cell bars. The poster has text that fades from blue to red. It reads, "Stop the terror at Riker's Island/...

c. 1971

Poster has dark black and gray photograph in the center of men raising their fists in the air. The poster has red and black lettering. It reads overall, "Prison Conference/ The Struggle Inisde/...

1968

This copy of "Soul On Ice" by Eldridge Cleaver was acquired to replace a copy of the same book stolen from exhibition in the 20th Century Gallery of the Cowell Hall of California History c. 1992...

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