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The Joseph Fischer collection of Vietnam War era political protest posters was given to The Bancroft Library by Joseph Fischer
in 2016.
Joseph Fischer: born 1926; received M.A. from University of California, Berkeley; Southeast Asian scholar; long-time Berkeley
resident.
[Identification of item], Joseph Fischer collection of Vietnam War era political protest posters, BANC PIC 2016.118, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
San Francisco Bay Area political protest posters from the Vietnam War era, most of them denouncing war, criticizing U.S. foreign
policy of the Lyndon B Johnson and Richard M. Nixon administrations, demanding support for the peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia,
and/or promoting peace. Other topics include the Kent State University shootings, support for the United Farm Workers union,
People's Park, and criticism of the police. Many posters feature silk-screened designs created by University of California,
Berkeley students in the College of Environmental Design, Wurster Hall, perhaps for a program named Gorilla Graphics, as suggested
by one poster in the collection (no. 85).
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Protest movements -- California -- San Francisco -- Posters
oversize-folder B 1, item 1
Peace Now
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: flower in pot.]
oversize-folder B 1, item 2
Does He Destroy Your Way of Life?
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Vietnamese farmer with ox.]
oversize-folder B 1, item 3
Peace
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder B 1, item 4
Against The War
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder B 1, item 5
A Home for Peace
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder B 1, item 6
Big Brother is watching you so do something
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: face of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson?]
oversize-folder B 1, item 7
Napalm: It’s the Real Thing for S.E. Asia
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: soft drink bottle alluding to Coca-Cola.]
oversize-folder B 1, item 8
Stop The War
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: skulls.]
oversize-folder B 1, item 9
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” [On destruction of Ben Tre village, Vietnam.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder B 1, item 10
Vietnamization
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Vietnamese children with war injuries.]
oversize-folder B 1, item 11
Kent State University May 4th, 1970
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder B 1, item 12
People’s Park
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: photograph of police officer pulling up newly planted tree.]
oversize-folder B 1, item 13
People’s Park
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: photograph of officers amid clouds of tear gas.]
oversize-folder B 1, item 14
[No text. Anit-war image: no bomber planes.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder B 1, item 15
Speak Out Against The Madness
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Kent State University scene.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 16
Fiesta Campesina. [United Farm Worker’s benefit.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 17
Human concern/personal torment. [Exhibition, University Art Museum, Berkeley.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 18
A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Rebuild
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 19
Money Talks. Boycott War Profiteers
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: U.S. $1 bill with portrait of George Washington gagged.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 20
[No text. U.S. Flag design with guns and fighter jets.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 21
Unity in our Love of Man
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: war refugee children.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 22
Unity in our Love of Man
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: war refugee children.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 23
Vote for Community Control of Police
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 24
Peace Now
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: clouds in blue sky.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 25
Peace Now
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: dove with olive branch.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 26
Peace Now
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: dove with olive branch.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 27
Turn It In
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Selective Service System draft card.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 28
Americans Want Peace
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: dove and olive branches.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 29
Amerika is Devouring its Children
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: appropriation of Francisco Goya painting: Saturn Devouring His Son.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 30
“Bring Us Together.”
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: chimpanzee with open arms.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 31
Peace or Pieces
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 32
Recycle Nixon
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 33
…And Leave the Driving to Us
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: military tank with pig’s head and Nazi swastika emblem.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 34
“American, when will you be Angelic?...”
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Allen Ginsberg.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 35
Amerika
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: German Luger handgun.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 36
Write for Peace
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: hand with quill pen.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 37
The Wages of Sin is Death. Therefore Choose Life
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 38
Did you vote for this? Who did?
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: dead soldier on battlefield.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 39
Yes on Peace
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 40
Kent State; Augusta, Georgia
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 41
Fascist Infested!
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: rat with gun and American flag.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 42
“Bring Us Together.”
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: cemetery headstones.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 43
Where are you going now my love? Where will you be tomorrow?
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: bullet hole above woman’s face.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 44
Send them Tractors not Tanks
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 45
Let’s have peace
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: child’s drawing of person holding flower.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 46
We Must Unite Now!
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 47
Don’t be a Silent Part of the War Machine. Speak Out against Cambodia
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 48
Stop Kissing Pig Ass
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: buttocks of pig with lipstick kiss imprint.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 49
Home Sweet Home. Bring Them Back Alive
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: cemetery crosses.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 50
Viva La Causa! Nosotros Venceremos! [United Farm Workers.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 51
Farmworkers & Consumers Unite! Boycott Lettuce
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 52
En Salinas. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 53
Scanlan’s. Impeach Nixon
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: fist punching a face. Artist: Topor.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 54
All his parents' love and devotion did not save the life of this boy
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: scene from Kent State University conflict.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 55
Unite For Peace!! America is a democracy only as long as it represents the will of the people
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: photograph of scene from Warsaw Ghetto uprising.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 56
Viva La Revolucion
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Emiliano Zapata.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 57
U.S. Out of S.E. Asia Now!
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 58
Military Spending. Suicide
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 59
Are your Prints on Peace? Act Now!
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: hand prints.]
oversize-folder C 1, item 60
No Nixon Agnew War
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder C 1, item 61
Alcatraz is not an Island
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 62
OUT
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: skull.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 63
My Lai We Lie They Die. [Anti R.O.T.C. satire.]
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: nude young man wearing gas mask, with guns and grenades in place of genitals.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 64
Stop the Tragedy Now
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 65
24-hour vigil at South Vietnamese Consulate. [Against U.S. support for Nguyen Van Thieu.]
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Richard M. Nixon throwing “Thieu” bowling ball.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 66
For Whom the Bell Tolls…
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 67
Sisterhood is Blooming. Springtime will never be the same. [Women’s Liberation Union.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 68
[Hitler Quote: “The streets of our country are in turmoil…”]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 69
Red Lantern. [Film screening for 23rd anniversary of People’s Republic of China.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 70
Peace
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: nude woman motif.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 71
Semana International de Solidardad con la Heroico Pueblo de Viet Nam [Vietnam]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 72
U.S. Government Surplus
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Grim Reaper figure driving wagon loaded with dead bodies.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 73
Fiesta Campesina. [United Farm Works of America.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 74
Speak Out Against the War
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 75
America Saves the World
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: satirical comic strip suggesting U.S. will destroy the world.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 76
Let there be Peace and let it begin with me
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 77
Know your Enemy
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: face of Vietnamese child with war injuries.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 78
Unite
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 79
Vietnam: Spilled Blood Split the Country
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 80
White Peace is Bullshit. End all your wars
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 81
To All Oppressed People of the World: Unity is the Solution. From the prisoners of Attica State Prison
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 82
Asia for Asians!!
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: Near Eastern man (?) in traditional attire, flipping middle finger.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 83
Hunger is Violence
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: starving child.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 84
Unite Against the War
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 85
Gorilla Graphics Lives. Come work for peace. C.E.D. Wurster Hall. [College of Environmental Design, U.C. Berkeley.]
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 86
2 of your sisters are being raped. What kind of brother are you?
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: U.S. soldiers raping women personifying nations of Vietnam and Cambodia.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 87
Bank of Amerika. Trust and National Saving Association, Isle Vista Branch
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Design: bank check superimposed over photograph of riot during which Bank of America was burned.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 88
Stop War
Physical Description:
1 print
Note
[Image: bleeding STOP sign.]
oversize-folder D 1, item 89
Stop War
Physical Description:
1 print
oversize-folder D 1, item 90
[No text. Image: Adolf Hitler holding mask of Richard M. Nixon.]
Physical Description:
1 print