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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Streetfare Journal Poetry posters
Summary
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.10-004.3
- Creators:
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Transportation Displays, Inc.
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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13 Posters
- Repository:
Contents
Contents
Earthquake Series--1989 (Vol. VI, No. 2, Fall 1989) -- Henry Dumas, "Fir" (with a black & white photograph by David Lubbers); -- 1990 (Vol. VII, No. 1, Summer 1990)--Elizabeth Bishop, "Rain Towards Morning" (with a painting by Frank Stella) -- Jayne Cortez, "The Red Pepper Poet" (with a painting by James Cobb) -- Jack Marshall, "Dawn Notes" (with a painting by James Rosenquist) -- Diane Di Prima, "Numbers Racket" (with a painting by Robert Goodnough) -- Michael Smith, "Sunday" (with a painting by Maria Baca) -- Gary Soto, "A Red Palm" (with a painting by James Cobb); 1994 (Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1994) -- Robert Hayden, "Crispus Attucks" (with drawing of Revolutionary War soldiers)-- Robert Hayden, "Sojourner Truth" (with short biography on Sojourner Truth) -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.(with image and quote from Dr. King) -- Rosa Parks (with image and short biography on Parks) -- Joe Sam, "Black Homesteaders" (with mix-media work by artisit) -- From the Collection of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum Purchase, Art Trust Fund, " Mask with Headdress" and "Helmet Mask" From the Collection of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Bequest of Axel M. Peterson.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This collection, which dates from circa 1989 -1994, contains 13 interior bus posters and a poetry book by Henry Dumas, "Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected poetry of Henry Dumas," 1989.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Streetfare Journal poetry broadsides was a poetry series sponsored by the Transportation Displays Incorporated (TDI), , and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, D.C.), the Lannan Fourndation in Los Angeles, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund (New York), and the Australia Council for the Arts, among other agents to create bus posters featuring poetry and art to display on city bus systerms in the United States.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
Preferred Citation
Streetfare Journal Poetry posters, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Poetry | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Poets | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Broadsides | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Posters | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Buses | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
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