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Untitled
1968

Poster containing Guerrilla Free Newspaper of the Streets, Volume Two, Number 4. Black text on a white background on front and verso.

1968

Poster with black text on white background containing Guerrilla, the Free Newspaper of the Streets, Volume Two, Number 3. Front is a political poster for Eldridge Cleaver for president. Verso...

Untitled
1968

Poster with black text on a white background, containing Guerrilla, the Free Newspaper of the Streets, Volume Two, Number 2. Headline text across top half, and smaller text in four columns on...

Night Poetry in North Beach
1993

Poster advertising a poetry reading and open microphone evening at Caffee Verdi in San Francisco. Poster is white with black text and top and bottom and an illustration of Giuseppe Verdi in brick...

Poets and Painters
1989

Poster advertising an art exhibition in 1989 at Laguna Honda Hospital. Poster has an illustration of three red flowers with two large purple and red butterflies. The background is yellow.

You've Got Mail
Circa 1998

Poster advertising the Warner Bros. movie "You''ve Got Mail." Image is a photograph of Tom Hanks on the left and Meg Ryan on the right with a green background.

A Wild and Crazy Fall 1987
1987

Poster advertising a series of video screenings and art lectures at San Francisco State University. Poster has an illustration of many bodies in a tree and falling out of the tree. Figures are...

Untitled
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertising an exhibit of "The Daily News" paintings at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francico. The poster has a black background, white border, and a circular image at center with a...

The Captive Minds Series
1985

Poster advertising a series of talks in Berkeley, California, titled "The Captive Minds Series." The poster is white with a color print at top by artist Doug Minkler. Below is text in black with...

Captive Minds: a class and public seminar on the politics of art
1987

Poster advertising a series of talks in San Francisco, California, titled "Captive Minds." The poster is white with a color print at top by artist Doug Minkler. Below is text in blue with...

Calvin Simmons Ancient Hip Hop Symphony
Circa 1997

Poster supporting the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, with a large color photograph of a mural on the side of Calvin Simmons Middle School in Oakland, California. The mural includes images of...

Poetry in action
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertizing a poetry writing contest for Poetry in Action. Poster has a black and white photograph of a factory with smokestacks and several people superimposed in front of the image. Text...

Poetry in Motion
Late 20th Early 21st Century

New York City subway poster that is part of the Poetry in Motion series. Poster has details of subway wall tiles acorss the top, with "Poetry in Motion" written out in white tiles within blue...

2 PEOPLE Personas IN en L.A.
1990

Poster titled "2 PEOPLE Personas IN en L.A." in a banner across the top, helpd up by angels. Text in English in purple, followed by text in Spanish in blue.

Indymedia newreal
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster to advertise Indymedia Newsreal screenings. Poster has an illustration of a strip of film in red on a black background.

Peace Works
1985

Poster for Peace Works and People''s World. "Peace Works" in red, block text across poster on white background. Overlaps black silhouetter of factories and a crowd of people holding signs.

Come. And be my baby.
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster for the Poems on the Underground series with a poem by Maya Angelou in two columns, black text on a white background. Red hearts between each word in the phrase "And be my baby."

Youth Arts Festival
1988

Poster advertising a Youth Arts Festival in Berkeley, California in 1998. Poster is white with student-made drawing of a king. Block of text below on a black background with details about the...

Against Forgetting Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertising a poetry reading held at U.C. Berkeley, with contributors to Against Forgetting. Poster has a photograph of a figurative sculpture against a cloudy sky. Various poet''s names...

Building Community Through the Arts
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster advertizing the East By Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, California. Poster has four quadrants showing upcoming performance series: CBCPA faculty performances, El Segundo...

Street Dance
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with illustration and text in brown on yellow paper. Illustration at center shows a street scene with many people dancing. Text borders the art.

Processed World
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster for Processed World Magazine with an illustration of outer space, and a person sitting in front of a computer on a desk that is on top of a rectangular globe of the earth. One corner of the...

Peace Works
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with the title "Peace Works" in red block text, overlapping with a silihousett of factories and workers holding signs.

Peace on our Planet
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster for A People''s Holiday Market. Purple ink on light blue paper, with a darker purple border and text. The top half of purple area has stars.

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