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| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the French-Hungarian film, "Sirokkó." Illustrated image of a group of people walking through woods.... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Handmade poster featuring a drawing of a person wearing a large flower on top of their head, and a dress made of grass. The person is blowing through the s... |
| Date: | 07 24 1937 |
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| Description: | Poster with words "Holidays With Pay!" at the bottom illustrated by sketches of workers punching in to work and of people relaxing on a beach. |
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| Description: | Poster identifying a list of people (and the Ministry of Work) as "repressive." The poster then promises "we will fight until we succeed." Original poster ... |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Peoples' New Year's Party at the Langston Huges [sic] Center. Includes the motto "Same struggle — same fight." |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Poster for Democrat Midge Miller. The poster features cartoons of ordinary people all shouting "Midge Miller for Assembly." |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating against United States governmental support for the Salvadoran military and government. The poster reproduces a photograph of people, incl... |
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| Description: | Poster opposing military aid to the government of El Salvador featuring an illustration of silhouetted helicopters spraying red gas towards two people in s... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 21, "Lincoln." The poster features a painting of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. with the following phrase spanning the top bo... |
| Date: | 07 01 1976 |
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| Description: | Rainbow filmstrip poster for the 1ST Annual Peoples Free Film Festival. Text includes: "it's free but donations needed, Sheep Meadow, Central Park. Childre... |
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| Description: | A poster encouraging people to register and vote. At the top is a circle with a black hand and a white hand clasped in friendship. Below is the text, "Regi... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a line of people waiting to buy war savings stamps. The clothing and jewelry of the people suggests they are of varied ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The Red Cross insignia is in the bottom center of the poster. Text at the top reads: "The Red Cross Supplies 30,000 People Each Week With Information Conce... |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the 1924 film "Argentine Love" starring Bebe Daniels and Ricardo Cortez. The woman in the center has a look of fear on her face as people ar... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting summer performances by The Wisconsin Peoples History Players. High contrast graphic depiction of dancers and jugglers in front of a blue b... |
| Date: | 03 13 1971 |
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| Description: | An anti-war poster which reads, "Join the Army. Meet unusual, exciting people - and kill them." |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz... |
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| Description: | Social action poster advertising a fast. The caption reads: "Dec. 8th Fast to save a people." Below is a photograph of a Pakistani family. Text continues: ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Honor roll poster for service members from Fond du Lac county. Includes an American flag. In addition to the list of names, poster text reads: "Fond du Lac... |
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| Description: | Text in large red and black letters reads: "One term once" 'Entrenched politicians' (underlined) is not good democracy. With one term, more people become i... |
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