Content description:
Small poster with a black and white drawing at the top. The drawing depicts USA playing a poker game against the USSR with the world's resources minerals, and oil as the bet. The USA person is dressed as a cowboy and the USSR person is dressed in military clothing. In the upper right is "The Lone Recycler" character coming in with a bag of "Saved resources and energy $$." He has a speech bubble with "Never Fear Recycling's Here!" Below the drawing the poster reads, "Recycling Works for Peace/ Start a Peaceful Habit Today!/ Please Recycle/ Resource Center Recycling Locations/ Drop-off 6100 S. Blackstone/ Buy- Back 6600 S. Kenwood/ 493-1466/ Recycling saves trees. This is 100 percent recycled paper." [This poster describes early Chicago facilities for taking recyclable materials. It also makes the unusual connection between recycling and promoting world peace, with cartoon Reagan (USA) and Gorbachev (USSR) characters. -LMC]