offset lithograph

Labor Says Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home Now!
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black ink on white paper. Poster text reads, "Labor Says Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home Now!" The phrase "Bring Them Home Now!" is printed in italic font.

Homeland Security
2004

Multi-color poster is divided into two sections. The upper section shows a blonde girl in a yellow gingham dress holding an American flag. The girl appears in profile and turns her head to look...

New Pickle Circus in Te Trasomia Circus of the Elements
c. 2005

Poster has an image of a woman in a contortionist pose. Her leotard is a gray and black concrete with flames at the cuffs of the sleeve. Poster reads, "San Francisco School of Circus Arts/...

Internationalist Art Show: Anti-WW3
1981

Poster has a black background with a light yellow, pink and orange image of a woman's face. Poster reads, "Internationalist Art Show/ Anti-WW3/ Contemporary art and poetry from around the world/...

Julian Theatre: Brecht: In the Jungle of Cities
c. 1976

Poster is printed on red paper with black image and text. Around the edge is a border in the shape of a snake. The bottom center has an outline of a city with people surrounding the sides. Poster...

American Posters of Protest 1966-1970
c. 1971

Poster has a black square in the upper left with an image of the Statue of Liberty being pulled out of the mouth of a yellow man. The hand pulling the statue out has "Eat" in red on it. The border...

The Artist and the Poster: A Two-projector slide talk by prominent poster artist Lance Hidy
1985

Poster has an image of a woman handing a small world to a young child with a moon and sun above and below it on a blue background. Below is "Children Ast the World of Us." Near the bottom is "The...

The San Francisco Mime Troupe presents Fact Wino meets the "Moral Majority."
1981

Poster is printed on light yellow paper and has an image of a man dressed as a superhero fending off men in black robes holding a cross. Above reads, "The San Francisco Mime Troupe presents Fact...

Make a Circus: Be In it
c. 1990

Poster has an image of clown reaching out a yellow gloved hand. Around the clown is "Make a circus/ be in it." The top edge has San Francisco's. The lower right has a piece of paper adhered with...

circa 1974

Poster has a red background printed on yellow paper with "The Pickle Family Circus" printed at the top. Image in center of poster depicts a fiver person marching band playing...

Art posters
Late 20th century

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. "Art Posters" at the top. Poster depicts 110 small black and white images of posters with titles beneath the image divided into six sections by price...

Personality Posters
c. 1968

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. "$1.00 Personality Posters $1.00" at the top. Poster depicts 150 small black and white images of posters (mostly iconic people) with titles beneath...

Pluck' em
c. 1980

Black and white poster. Majority of poster taken up with an close up image of an American Bald Eagle whose neck feathers end in the shape of nuclear weapons. In the lower right corner is an image...

13 dias/ 13 days
c. 1997

Text at top of poster reads "The San Francisco Mime Troupe / in collaboration with Borderlands Theater and Xochitl Films." Left side of poster has five black and white images of Mexicans on horses...

Bread and puppet theater
Late 20th century

One black and white poster with a large image of a female puppet in a white dress on stilts and two people/puppets lying on the floor beneath her. Printed vertically down the right side is "Bread...

Viva la huelga
c. 1993

White poster with black print and image of humans with the bird logo of the United Farm Workers of America in the background. Along the bottom of the image is "Viva La Huelga!" and in the lower...

13 dias / 13 days
c. 1997

Text at top of poster reads "The San Francisco Mime Troupe / in collaboration with Borderlands Theater and Xochitl Films." Left side of poster has five black and white images of Mexicans on horses...

Mayday benefit fo the international arts festival
Late 20th century

Poster with black, yellow, pink and blue print on white paper. Image depicts the silhouette of two figures in the background and an close up image of a woman in the forefront. Text at top reads "...

An' when yer smashin' th' state, kids...
c. 2005

Poster had a purple background with yellow and white print. Image depicts a comic character with its mouth open and a text bubble above its head. The text reads "An' when yer smashin' th' / state...

Machine gun in the clown's hand
c. 2004

Image on poster depicts a purple sky with gray clouds and 7 black stealth bomber like planes with flames on the ground. In the forefront are two Ronald McDonald like clowns, one wearing Mickey...

Loving in a time of war
Late 20th century

Poster consists of a black and white image with a red and gold border on white paper. Image depicts a bird on a knot of a rope that is tying a human man's hands together. Text reads "Belfast...

In the heart of the beast theatre and friends
c. 1990

Poster with green, red and white print on a black background. Text at top reads "In the heart of the beast theatre and friends." Image depicts a wheel with animals in each spoke, trees in one rim...

The Bay Area playwrights Festival VI
Late 20th century

Poster with black background and white print. "Bay Area Playwrights / July 17th Festival VI August 14th" along the top and "at Tamalpias High School, Mill Valley / Telephone: (415) 381-3311" at...

The Demeter project
c. 1976

White poster with black text and "The Demeter project" at the top. Under that is a synopsis of the Greek myth of Demeter's daughter Persephone. Under that is a color image by a child depicting the...

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