An original 1967 poster for The Om Festival of Lights, an event held on Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County outside of San Francisco on August 20, 1967. The site became a famous place for rock concerts during the "Summer of Love." The poster describes a "Procession of Light from Mt. Home parking lot to Mt. Tamalpais peak - bring candles, lanterns and love." According to the book "The Haight-Ashbury: A History by Charles Perry" (1984), the Grateful Dead performed for about 2,500 people at the event but park rangers shut.....
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A silkscreened poster by the UK's Poster Collective featuring images of labor protest plus music and lyrics from the iconic labor song "Which Side Are You On?" which was written by Appalachian activist Florence Reece in 1931. The poster also shows a large image of Sara Ogan Gunning, a singer and songwriter from the coal mining country of Eastern Kentucky. The song includes the lyrics "Come all of you good workers, good news to you. I'll tell, of how the good old union has come here to dwell. Which side.....
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Number 6 in a series of silkscreened blacklight posters produced in the 1960s by Hambly Studios of Santa Clara, CA. The series included the print number in the lower right (here #6), and at least eleven different prints were produced, maybe more. Illuminates in the dark with a blacklight. With a stamp on the back "Hambly Studios" showing their address and phone number in Santa Clara, CA. Harry Hambly was a printing entrepreneur who ran his successful printing business until 2012. In the 1960s his work caught the eye of.....
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