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Color-it-yourself poster from your life story by someone else
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Description
Black and red text and graphics on white paper. The poster is comprised of a comic strip in which people with AIDS storm the White House and infect Ronald Reagan's cabinet.
Asset Metadata
Title
Color-it-yourself poster from your life story by someone else
Subject
AIDS (Disease)
(subject),
Cartoons and comics
(subject),
Eggan, Ferd
(personal name)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Type
images
Format
1 print : lithograph, color
(format),
image/tiff
(imt),
posters
(aat),
sheet 40 x 28 cm (poster format).
(format)
Language
English
Source
ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials
(subcollection),
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
(collection),
University of Southern California
(contributing entity)
Relation References
Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/
(references)
Date Created
1982/1989
Creator
Brinkman, Scott
(creator),
Eggan, Ferd
(creator)
Contributor
Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection
(provenance)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
askone@usc.edu
Repository Name
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
Repository Location
909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771
Rights
This item is protected by copyright. Copyright holder is unknown, unidentifiable or unlocatable. For more information, see https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-RUU/1.0/?language=en
Access Conditions
This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-44783
Identifier
box 7 (
box
), P00986 (
call number
), one-2018001-p00986~01.tif (
filename
), one-c4-44783 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
44783
Unique identifier
UC12341872
Legacy Identifier
one-2018001-p00986~01.tif
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.6 in × 22.9 in at 300dpi
42.4 cm × 58.2 cm at 300dpi
Transcript (If available)
Content
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of Schultz, Meese + Weinberger, who fall under
the table, desperately groping for their Red smears of virus-infected blood
handkerchiefs, groveling under the over- from the roses cut into the Furious carriers carve
turned chairs. Spewing their hatred bir President's skin. \\\ safe sex rules into the
and rage at the leaders of the na- | wattles of Education
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into the forehead of the Vice-President, sucking his blood ore ~*~
surface and smearing the wounds with their semen.
THN
The great men of the nation succumb to cerebral hemorrhage and coronary attack as their blood is laced with the Cartoons
Text © Ferd Eggan microbes of slow and guilty death. © Scott Brinkman
Your Story by someone else
Inherited Values
Title
ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials
Description
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.
A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.
For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).
ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.
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