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Poster

These Men Are Narcotics Agents

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster alleging that six men, possibly University of Wisconsin-Madison students, are undercover narcotics agents. Poster was created by the defense league ...
Poster

Register Your Discontent. Vote.

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician...
Poster

"Fall Pow Wow" Poster

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Description: Poster promoting the Fall Pow Wow on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Includes a photograph of a group of people in the center. Produced by the ...
Poster

"Meat Melvin"

Date: 01 20 1971
Description: Poster advertising Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Features a cartooned Laird cornered in a boxing ring with...
Poster

Six Million Victims Anti-War Poster

Date: 11 1972
Description: Vietnam anti-war poster proclaiming that the human cost of the war has been six million people under Nixon's term as President. Features a picture of Presi...
Poster

Register to Vote Poster, Male

Date: 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne...
Poster

"Join the Army"

Date: 03 13 1971
Description: An anti-war poster which reads, "Join the Army. Meet unusual, exciting people - and kill them."
Poster

Build a Stronger Labor Movement Through Rank and File Action

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Description: Poster with screen printed images of people, places and things. Text at top reads: "Build a Stronger Labor Movement Through Rank and File Action." Text at ...
Poster

"Big Oil"

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Description: A naked man (bartender Earl Ehrhart from Union House) boiling in a cauldron, labeled "Degreaser for fats" over a wood fire. Two people, depicted as African...
Poster

Inter-State Narcotic Association Marijuana Warning Poster

Date: 09 1971
Description: Enlarged version of a mocking "warning card" to be placed in railroad trains, buses, streetcars, and other public forums. Warning reads, "Beware! Young and...
Poster

Newspaper Strike Support Rally and Community Picket

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Description: Poster with an image of people striking in front of The Capital Times and Wisconsin State Journal building. Text reads: Sunday, November 6 — 3 P.M. In the ...

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