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Tusler, Anthony [Photographs from the Anthony Tusler collection of disability rights material].
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Title:

[Photographs from the Anthony Tusler collection of disability rights material]

Creator/Contributor:

Tusler, Anthony, creator, creator.

Abstract:

Includes personal snapshots depicting Tusler and associates; digitally printed contact sheets of film negatives shot by Tusler at the 1977 demonstration and sit-in at the San Francisco Federal Building which led to the enactment of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act; promotional photographs of Sonoma County band Bronze Hog; miscellaneous photographs depicting disabled persons in various contexts and/or pertaining to disability rights; a selection of postcards depicting disabled persons and illustrated begging cards, most issued in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; a variety of vinyl stickers pertaining to performers Ego Plum and The Meatmen which reference disability; and three oversize film negatives depicting a nude woman sitting atop a semi truck. Aside from the 504 demonstration images, it is unclear which other photographs might have been taken by Tusler

Date:

1880 (issued)

Subject:

People with disabilities -- Photographs
People with disabilities -- Pictorial works
People with disabilities -- Civil rights
Personnes handicapées -- Photographies
Personnes handicapées -- Ouvrages illustrés
Personnes handicapées -- Droits
People with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Civil rights
Tusler, Anthony -- Archives
Tusler, Anthony -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Anthony Tusler.
Includes postcards and other printed materials, and stickers.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the Reference Inquiry form.
Transferred from the Anthony Tusler collection of disability rights material (BANC MSS 2015/188).
Gift ; Of Anthony Tusler ; 2015.
Photographs from the Anthony Tusler collection of disability rights material, BANC PIC 2015.054, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Archives.
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Postcards.

Physical Description:

photoprint
approximately 30 photographs in 1 box, 1 oversize folder and 1 portfolio : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets 28 x 36 cm or smaller

Language:

English

Identifier:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/reference-online

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the Reference Inquiry form.

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Anthony Tusler collection of disability rights material : Tusler, Anthony.
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