2010.54.1131

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Miss Amerika Classic Plastic
Miss Amerika Classic Plastic
1970
26.125 in HIGH x 20.125 in WIDE
(66.36 cm HIGH x 51.12 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.1131

Bottom edge has "For Maria Happy Birthday 8 May 70 Sai(?) Char(?)" handwritten in pencil.





Poster has a blue background with a drawing of a woman's face in white in the center. The woman has large red lips and big white teeth. She is smiling with a crown on her head. Under the head in gold is "Miss - Amerika - Classic - Plastic." Among the seminal media moments of the modern women's movement were the 1968 and 1969 protests, complete with street theater, outside of the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [LMC]

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