Brute’s Annual Summer Arts Festival and Camp In, 1974 August 23-25
Abstract
Concert poster publicizing the “Brute’s Annual Summer Arts Festival and Camp In” at the Take It Easy Ranch in Callaway, Maryland. Musician, poet, and activist Gil Scott-Heron is billed as a special guest. Additional performers from Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond listed on the poster include the Soul Searchers and Black Heat. The ranch, located at 45285 Take It Easy Ranch Road in St. Mary’s County, Maryland was the site of numerous musical concerts and festivals over the 1970s and into the 1980s.
Dates
- Event: 1974 August 23-25
Creator
- Globe Poster Corp. (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Extent
1 Items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession # 2022-001-LIB
Scope and Contents
The earliest posters in the collection feature Leonora Jackson, one of the first female violinists to gain international fame, circa 1900-1915. The most recent poster is a 2020 Black Lives Matter poster. In between is everything from a 1968 Nixon/Agnew campaign poster, to Baltimore City Fair posters from the 1970s, to a poster from the U.S. Pro Cycle Championship held in Baltimore in 1982.
The bulk of the posters in the collection, over 1,000, are World War I and World War II era propaganda posters. Most were produced by the U.S. Government; the collection also consists of privately printed posters, both from the United States and abroad.
Creator
- Globe Poster Corp. (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750
specialcollections@mdhistory.org