It's March 8, International Women's Day. This morning on Twitter Cory Doctorow shared 12 posters on that subject, almost all from the early 1970s from the looks of them. They're from a Tumblr called fuckyeahanarchistposters.
The images came from a mysterious source called the AOUON Archive at the Oakland Museum of California.
Well, now I know that those letters stand for All of Us or None and that archive came out of the Free Speech Movement. Starting in 1977, an activist named Michael Rossman began gathering posters created since 1965 from the progressive movement in the U.S. After he died in 2008, his family donated his collection to the Oakland Museum in California.
Not surprisingly, the collection is strongest on California-based work, but about a quarter of it originated outside that state. It contains 24,500 pieces.
It's all digitized and viewable there. What a cool resource!
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