click zoom to display a high-res image
Dana Beal Liberation Poster
Image
Poster advocating the liberation of Dana Beal, a marijuana legalization advocate who had been recently apprehended in Madison. Poster features a stylized image of Beal. Tagline reads, "As long as he sits, youth culture sits! contribute to; free dana, free marijuana".
September 1971
Publication Information
Physical Description
Collection Information
Copyright Information
W014AMS
WHi 55997
Image
Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
1st Annual Marijuana Harvest Festival
September 1971
Poster publicizing the 1st Annual Marijuana Harvest Festival, in Madison's Brittingham Park, September 25, 1971. Event followed by a Dana Beal Memorial Anti-heroin march. David Peel & the Lower Ea...
Those Gay Boys are Takin' Over
1971
Poster produced by the Madison Gay Liberation Front promoting their weekly meeting at the St. Francis House, located at 1001 University Avenue. A young man wearing only a necktie is surrounded by a...
Free Angela Davis Poster
February 1971
Poster advocating the liberation of Angela Davis, an American Communist organizer and professor associated with the Black Panther movement. Created by The New York Committee to Free Angela Davis.
Soviet Jewry Freedom Bus
1971
Recruitment poster for a Soviet Jewry Freedom Bus, advocating the liberation of the Soviet Jewish population. Features large chain links and the phrase "Let my people go...," with the Soviet Hammer...
Gay Liberation Poster
1970
Poster proclaiming "Gay Liberation Loves you Very Much". Indicates that a meeting is held every Wednesday evening at 8:00 pm at the St. Francis House, located at 1001 University Avenue.
Support Prison Rebellions Poster
November 1971
Poster created by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), advocating support of prison rebellions, and the abolishment of alleged racist prison terror. Features a reproduction of a linoleum print ...
