Object number:
2010.54.1902
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
San Francisco, 1971
Date made:
circa 1971
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 17 in, W: 11 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster has a thick white border overall. Poster has a stylized photographic image of a city street flooded with protestors making the peace sign with their hands and carrying signs. Some of the more prominent signs read: "War is the Ultimate Atrocity", "Our Last March", and "Peace Now". The lower left corner of the poster has the text: "San Francisco 1971". [This was from the antiwar demonstration April 24, 1971. 156,000 people marched in San Francisco while a simultaneous march was being held in Washington, D.C.. It was the largest such rally to date on the West Coast. -LMC]
Concepts:
protest; activism; peace; march; war
Places:
San Francisco
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