Object number:
2010.54.5940
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Juneteenth
Date made:
2001
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 22 in, W: 22 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 black background with an image of a young boy laying in grass with a bug on his forward. Below the photo is "photo: Gordon Parks, boy with June Bug, 1963. (c) Gordon Parks." Below is "Juneteenth/ The Living legacy of Gordon Parks/ presented by Pacific Bell/ Oakland Museum of California/ Saturday June 23, 2001 10-4 PM Free/ Arts food entertainment cultural activities african marketplace." [Juneteenth is an annual commemoration of the announcement in state of Texas on June 19, 1865 of the abolition of slavery in the U.S.. -LMC]
Concepts:
june; slavery; boy; celebration; Civil War
Places:
Oakland Museum of California
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