Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from San Francisco Poster Brigade poster collection must be obtained from Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation

San Francisco Poster Brigade poster collection, C0282, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Purchased in 2015.

Processing Information

Processing completed by Jessica Lynn in January 2016. EAD markup completed by Jessica Lynn in 2016.

Historical Information

The San Francisco Poster Brigade, originally called the Wilfred Owen Brigade, was begun by artist Rachael Romero and Leon Klayman in the San Francisco Bay area in 1975. In 1980 they began the Internationalist Art Show: Anti WW3, a mail-art phenomenon in San Francisco. The show became a festival of art, poetry, dance and performance, travelling to Los Angeles, Tucson, New York City and back to San Francisco until 1982.

Scope and Content

The collection documents the work of the San Francisco Poster Brigade in the 1970 and early 1980s. The subjects include worker and labor struggles, international conflict, and advertisements for art festivals. The international subjects include South Africa apartheid, fascism in Chile, and political prisoners in Spain. The poster measure from 14.5x11 inches to 22x18 inches.

Arrangement

Organized by subject.

Related Material

Special Collections Research Center holds other poster collections with political subject matter including the French Communist Party poster collection and the East German poster collection political series.

Index Terms

Document Types:

• Political posters