Box Large Posters, 1970-1979

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Prepared by the Baltimore City Planning Commission/Department of Planning; Printing by Reproduction and Printing Division, Bureau of Purchases.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...

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Printed in Baltimore, Maryland by Champion Press, Inc. Print Design, Photography (excetp where noted) and Paste-up by Frank Hopkins.

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Includes reproductions of "Parson Weem's Fable"; "Washington"; and the Declaration of Independence.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...

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...