Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions on personal use. Items in this collection fall under CC BY-NC (non-commercial use). Permission to publish content from this collection for commercial use is required from the artist, Rachael Romero.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation

San Francisco Poster Brigade poster collection, #C0282, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Purchased in 2015 from Leon Klayman.

Processing Information

Processing completed by Jessica Lynn in January 2016. EAD markup completed by Jessica Lynn in 2016. Finding aid updated by Liz Beckman in April 2021.

Historical Information

The San Francisco Poster Brigade, originally called the Wilfred Owen Brigade, was co-founded by artist Rachael Romero 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 poster artwork done by artist Rachael Romero in the 1970s and early 1980s, most as part of the San Francisco Poster Brigade. 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 posters 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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Political posters
• Political posters