Object number:
2010.54.1131
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Miss Amerika Classic Plastic
Maker:
Saichi Kawahara
Date made:
1970
Material / Technique:
Screen print on paper
Dimensions:
H: 26.125 in, W: 20.125 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 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]
Concepts:
Miss America; female; crown
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