advertising

1981

Top edge has: "Streetart / The Punk Poster In San Francisco" in red text. Below is an image of a human mouth and black and white stripes. The bottom left corner of the poster has as small red...

1902

Camera Craft, a Photographic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 6, San Francisco, California, April 1902. Photography magazine owned by Oscar Maurer. The front cover contains the title of the magazine in a...

ca. 1938

The heading in the catalog for Dorothea Lange Retrospective New York Museum of Modern Art reads: "Crossroads Store, Alabama 1937," which is a misidentification. The photo was actually...

1917
Booklet, 55 ways to Save Eggs, Royal Baking Powder Co., copyright 1917. 
 
Object found by Susan Burns in attic at 2447 Carleton, Berkeley.
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circa 1939

Green, plastic advertising pin in the shape of a pickle impressed with the name "Heinz" on the front.  A brass safety pin is attached to a groove in the back to permit wearing....

Dylan for President
1968

"Dylan for President" poster that is a pullout from the November 23, 1968 Rolling Stone magazine. Stylized illustration of Bob Dylan in blue and white. Left half of poster is red. Verso has eight...

Music is not Sex
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. Text reads "Music Is Not Sex / Television Exists In A Vacuum. / Adolf Hitler Wrote The Book / On Modern Advertising. Rock And / Roll Has Nothing To Do...

Calls to domestic violence hotlines increase up to 40% on Superbowl Sunday
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a dotted background black and white photo of men in football uniforms crashing into one another. In a black screenprinted bar across the top is white text reading "Calls To Domestic...

Love
1991

Photograph shows two women; a dark-haired woman leaning on the shoulder of a light-haired woman wearing a long necklace. Poster reads, "T-shirts as customized by Dianne, experienced queer activist...

Fierce
1991

Photograph shows two women; the woman to the right is wearing hoop earings, glasses, and a necklace identified as Carrie the woman to the left wearing boxing gloves is identified as Kate. The...

Smooch
1991

Photograph shows two women kissing each other; woman on the right is cupping the other woman's head and neck in her hand. Poster reads, "Lesbian-wear as modeled by Sarah, dyke academic and Kris,...

DAM!: Dyke Action Machine
1991

Poster has a black background with white text. Poster reads, "Queer Future/ Dyke Fashion/ Queer Planet/ Dyke Action/ DAM!/ Dyke Action Machine."Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public...

Ellen DeGeneres: Taste This
1996
...And leave the driving to us...
1970

Poster is printed on tractor feed printer paper with red ink. In the center is a drawing of a tank with a swastika on the front. In the center of the tank is a gun barrel with the head of a pig...

While Our Kids Draw Little Brown Cows in the Meadow, Kids in Indochina Are Drawing These
1972

The top of the poster has the text: "As advertised in The New York Times / While our kids draw little brown cows in the meadow, kids in Indochina are drawing these.". Below this text are images of...

29-Dec

Second advertisement poster from the Agricultural Promotional Campaign of 1929-1930 for Alameda County. The catch phrase for the poster is "Small Acreage Yields Comfortable Income Here......

1975

Poster has a large orange border. In the center is a drawing of young boy playing with a toy train. The train track spells out Levis at the bottom. Next to the boy is a standing floor mirror....

1992

Poster has a color photograph overall. In the background there is a wall that appears to be ice in which bottles of beer are lodged. In the foreground there is a mining cart on a track with the...

The Gift of Presence
1993-94

Mixed media sculpture. Six wooden doors, painted black with white line drawings, stand side by side and are covered with brightly colored found objects.

Advertisement for Joe Boxer. Image of a woman wearing pearls and sunglasses with big ratted hair and the words "Joe Boxer" in white writing on the side.

1926

Souvenir program from the premier opening of the Grand Lake Theatre, March 6th, 1926. The cover is of blue cardstock, and velum separates it from the inside and back covers. Interior is beige...

1949-1953

This Toni doll has blond hair, blue "sleep" eyes, dark brown eyelashes and a closed mounth. She is dressed in her original baby blue dress with a "Peter Pan" style collar (rounded collar) trimmed...

Rectangular board sign with "Madison & Burke, 80 Post St.781-6690/ For Sale/..." It was used by the office of Madison & Burke, a realstate company in San Francisco, active in mid 20th....

1928

Hollywood Movie Fan Material. Description: Group IV Booklet: "Off the Lot" Glimpses of famous film stars, photos, text, graphic ads for spur Bow Ties. History: See 73.132.1a-ccc.

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