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1. Peace Party Collection
A huge and substantial collection of political ephemera from the People’s Party, an independent political party, third party founded in 1971 by a group of individuals, state and local political parties, including the Peace and Freedom Party, Commongood People's Party, Country People's Caucus, Human Rights Party, Liberty Union, New American Party, New Party (Arizona), and No Party (Wikipedia).
The party fielded Dr. Spock for President in the 1972 campaign and Margaret Wright (with Spock as Vice-
President) in the 1976 race. The group’s platform included the withdrawal of all American forces around the work, amnesty for war resisters, legalization of marijuana, an end to discrimination against women and gays, self-determination for oppressed groups, including statehood for the colonized people of Washington, DC (!), free medical care, and a minimum allowance for families. The group largely dissolved following their dismal showing in the 1976 election.
The collection includes 8 1⁄2” x 11” flyers primarily issued by the People’s Party of Cook County, located outside of Chicago. The earliest flyer is from The New Party and proposes the formation of a “radical political alternative,” which we assume was an early iteration of the People’s Party. Dr. Benjamin Spock and Gore Vidal are listed as the Honorary Chairmen. The other flyers report on various campaigns and activities undertaken by The People’s Party of
Cook County, although the last item is a form letter inviting supporters to attend the group’s 1974 National Convention in Indianapolis, IN, July 4-6. A snapshot of one of many attempts to break the political duopoly in the U.S.
The majority of the flyers are two-sided and have faint toning to the edges. Also, many handwritten and typed letters, handwritten notes, pamphlets and other paper ephemera. An almost near fine grouping.
The following are examples of the multitude of ephemera in each separate folder:
Package #1: Loose Papers -Keeping the Dream Alive: Peace & Freedom & Platform. 8.5 x 11” black text on white paper. Single- sided pictorial flyer.
-PF Flyer: a newsletter for the state central committee of the Peace and Freedom Party of California. Autumn 1995, Vol 2, Number 2. 6 pages, both sides. 8.5 x 11” blue papers, stapled in upper left corner. Folded horizontally for mailing; Mailing label: Tom Condit. -Peace and Freedom Party: Electoral Manifesto of the Socialist Slate: For A Socialist America! Newspaper. August 1986 - Working Class Opposition - Pages 9-12. 11.5 x 17.” -Register and Vote For What You Really Want..Peace and Freedom. Oakland, CA: Peace & Freedom Party. 8.5 x 14,” single tan broadside with black print. Front only with an illustration. Small watermark on upper left corner, not affecting text, near fine. -Peace & Freedom Party 1978 Platform. Adopted By the State Convention, San Luis Obispo, CA. Aug, 5-6, 1978. Los Angeles: Peace and Freedom Party, 1978. 8.5 x 14,” single, tan sheet, with black print. Text on both sides. Bottom edge tears and a tiny chip on upper right edge, else very good. -Convention Call! 1974 Peace and Freedom Party: February 16/17 San Francisco School Board Conf. Rm: Candidates, Platform Revision, ‘Hat Kind of Party is P&F?? Will We Lose Our Ballet Status? We Easily Could! Do You Care? State Conventions are Open to all P&F Registrants. 8.5 x 14.” Single yellow sheet, front side only. Folded horizontally in middle. Left edge worn in the middle, small mark on lower left edge. Minor tear at bottom right corner, not affecting text, else very good.
New Folder: Originals
-Statement of Elsie L. Wilcott - Former Contra Costa County Peace & Freedom Party member. Date of (Feb. ’77) handwritten in pencil in upper left right corner. 8.5 x 11.” Single white sheet, both sides. -To Make A Revolution: Notes on Implementing the Program of the People’s Party. 7/27/76. 4 lose white pages, fronts only. 8.5 x 11.” -Letter to Milton Takei, dated Dec.30, 1976. 2 pages, stapled in upper left corner. 8.5 x 11.” Fronts only. Hand signature in red pen. On the bottom of the 2nd page, in handwritten black ink- “Copies to active members of the SCC. Selected other enclosures on I.W.P.” Stapled in upper left corner, near fine. -Note from Bill Callison (handwritten in pen). For Publication In the California P&P Newsletter, dated Jan. 17, 1977: Comrades of the State Executive Committee. 8.5 x 11.” Single sheet, front only. -The Developing Split in the People’s Party. Dated 1/30/77. 7 pages, single sided, stapled in upper left corner. 8.5 x 11,” else near fine.
New Folder: Calif. PFP -What We Are and Where We Are Going. Dated in upper left corner - handwritten in pen - 1975. Single yellow sheet, 8.5 x 14.” Single sided. Few editing marks, else near fine. -Three notecards, dated 1/25/76. “Meeting of 1/24/76 to form a Northern Calif. Regional Party of the People’s Party.” 5 x 3.” Each card is filled on front side in handwritten cursive. All cards stapled together in upper left corner. -Peace & Freedom Party - L.A. Co. PFP Newsletter August 1976. L.A. Co. Peace & Freedom Party. 8.5 x 11.”5 fragile newspaper sheets. Double sided, except last page. Stapled in upper left corner. Some tanning on all pages, all edges. Attached is a 3.5 x 8.5,” single sheet, front only. Lend Equally-No Discrimination. L.E.N.D. Campaign - Sponsored by Coalition Against Redlining. -California Peace and Freedom Party State Newsletter, October 1976. 8.5 x 14,” single sheet, text on both sides. Folded horizontally in the middle, else near fine. -LA Meetings. Pink 8.5 x 4.5” sheet, front only. Wednesday - November 10th - 7:30 p.m. Fine. -State Executive Committee Meeting - November 20, 1976 - Oakland. A 5.5 x 8.5” sheet with a map of the location. tanning throughout, else near fine. -Vote NO on proposition BB - Peace and Freedom Party - for President: Margaret Wright. L.A. Co. Peace and Freedom Party. Two 8.5 x 11,” yellow faded sheets. First sheet, front only; second sheet both sides. Tanning throughout, stapled in upper left corner. Small tear on right middle edge, not affecting text. Stapled on left upper corner. -Fellow Peace & Freedom Party Members - a letter, 8.5.x.11.” Letter about a a future conference, named “Put Politics in Command.” Single sheet, text on front only. A bit of editing by hand, added date and time - “12/23 7:30 pm.” Tanning on upper and lower edges, else very good +. -A letter from Milton Takei, Chairperson of the California Peace and Freedom Party. dated January 17, 1977 to California P & P locals, state officers and County Central Committees. Hand written in pencil on upper right corner: “received in mail 11/21/77.” Single sheet, 8.5 x 11,” text on front only. Tanning on upper and lower edge. Back is blank except for... -Letter to members of the State Central Committee - California Peace and Freedom Party. From Adela Fumino, Secretary, dated September 14, 1976. Two sheets of newsprint, 8.5x 14.” First page has text on both sides. On the back of the second page is a handwritten address to Bill Callison. Stapled in upper left corner, folded horizontally for mailing. -Save Huntington Beach! Your home and Beach are in jeopardy - come fight for your rights on Nov. 18th - 5:00 pm at Huntington High Gymnasium. A blue flyer, 8.5 x 14,” with tanning on most of the upper right corner down to the middle of edge. Horizontally folded in half. The date is in written in pen on the upper right corner “Nov. 76.” Small chips and tears along right edge. The back is filled with handwritten notes in pencil.
-Letter from Dave (hand signed) to Mr. Bill Callison. Three 8.5 x 11” papers stapled in upper left corner, front side only. 2nd page is the Press Release, third page is the Background. -WALD for U.S. Senate, dated January 7, 1976. Two 8.5 x 11” pages, front only, stapled in upper left corner.
Peace and Freedom Party letterhead - slated For Immediate Release. Announcement that David Wald will seek the Peace & Freedom Party candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Informs that Wald will submit signatures of P & FP registrants in lieu of a filing fee to obtain a place on the ballot in the June primary, near fine.
-A letter to Mr. Callison, dated September 10, 1976. Letterhead from the California Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Club. Three 8.5 x 11” pages: The first page is an invite to Bill Callison to attend an “Old Fashioned Town Hall Dinner” sponsored by 13 of the East Bay Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, hand signed by Eleanor Rasar, Chairman. 2nd page is titled: California Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Club Proposed Legislation Platform 1976-1977. Final page: Suggested Rules for Candidates. All near fine.
-Two 8.5 x 11” white papers explaining David Wald’s background. Pages are stapled in upper left corner. A minute stain in the upper left corner around the staple, else near fine. -The Senate Campaign, dated in pencil in upper right corner: 10/8/75. Two 8.5 x 11” pages, text on front only. Discusses the opportunity for the Peace and Freedom Party to reach millions of Californians with [our] revolutionary working class politics.
-Politics & program development Conference. Oppose the Capitalist System - Ilsa Vista, April 26 & 27. Added in pencil the year 1975. Single yellow 11 x 8.5” sheet, folded in half for a pamphlet. Black text. Slipped inside is a white sheet, 11 x 8.5, folded in half is the Agenda and specific information, directions to the conference: Where to Go, Housing, Meals & Childcare... On back of the insert is a rough map with arrows showing which way to go. Near fine.
-Towards A Socialist Democracy: meet the candidates dinner,. Saturday October 5, 1974 [year added in pen]. Single 8.5 x 11” white sheet with black text, front only. A few creases, else near fine. -Collective Political Self-Defense. Date added in pen to upper right corner: 4/1/75. A single sheet, 8.5 x 11.” Text on front only.
-You Do Have a Choice. Single sheet folded into thirds as a pamphlet. Opened, the 11 x 8.5” front side with a preamble and address stamped in pen. The verso shows Statewide Candidates, all candidates accompanied with a photo. -Draft - Peace & Freedom State Platform Plank On “Self-Defense.” Single sheet, 8.5 x 11,” text on front side. The smallest tear in the middle of bottom edge. Tanning on the upper right edge with a few tiny tears, not affecting text. Apparent ware, else very good.
-Template letter with specific details added in by pen. Single sheet, 8.5 x 11,” front text only. Creases throughout, else very good.
-Single sheet, 8.5 x 11.” Letter dated, Oct. 1, 1974. From Rene Davidson (Alameda County Registrar of Voters in Oakland, Ca.). Sent by the Chairperson, California Peace and Freedom Party. Minor wear, else fine. -Letter to Margaret and Dave, dated November 29, 1975. Single sheet, 8.5 x 11,” front text only. From bill (signed in pen - Bill). Letter discusses using the campaign to build the Party locally. -General Principles of the Party, dated in pencil in upper right corner - 8/16/74. Bill Callison’s name added in pen on the top edge. Two single sheets, 8.5 x 14.5,” double sided. Editing throughout. A few nicks and tears on both pages - wear throughout, else very good.
-Notes on two yellow legal sized pages. Rusty staple in upper right corner, 8.5 x 14,” dated 9/7/74. Notes on a PFP meeting. -“Feminist Socialism” vs. “Socialism.” Copy No. 17. Single sheet 8.5 x 14,” “Bill” is written in pen near the title, else very good.
-A letter from The Statewide Officers Collective, dated August11, 1975. Single yellow sheet, double sided; 8.5 x 11.” The contents of the letter is about a “second” ballot to determine our delegation to the National Convention. Explains the importance of this ballot. -Demystifying Our Position, dated in pen on upper right corner: 8/17/74. Two single 8.5 x 11,” single sided. Tanning on upper right edges on both pages. Stapled in upper left corner, else very good.
-Small tan note, 7.5 x 3,” dated April 16, 1975. Receipt from Bill Callison’s $4 dues from April to June 1, 1975 to the Peace & Freedom State Central Committee, from Leslie A. Simpson, Treasurer. -Peace and Freedom And Peoples’ Self Defense. Two single sheets 8.5 x 14,” text on front only, stapled in upper left corner. The statement was about confirming The Self Defense statement adopted by the 1970 convention of P&F has been reaffirmed by the 1972 convention. At the end of the letter, written by Bill Callison is a note in pen asking that his/her name be added to the group. Some wear and tanning on the right edge of both pages. Folded in half horizontally, else very good.
-Feminist Socialism - A Dissenting View, dated April 26, 1975. Single sheet, 8.5 x 11” front side only. Some wear and tanning to the top of the right edge, else very good. -Letter to the “Sisters and Brothers...” of the Peace & Freedom Party, dated May 29th, 1975. Single sheet, front only, 8.5 x 11.” [Bill Driscoll?] was asking all members to pay their dues and to inform them that there was a problem with the ballot. Notes in pen on the bottom of page and in the upper left corner in blue pen. There is a vertical crease in the middle, some tanning throughout, else very good.
-Dave Wald: U.S. Senate sponsored by Peace & Freedom Party. Single sheet , 12 x 9” folded into thirds. Text on all sides. Photo of Wald on front cover. Inside and illustration in red. Texr reads, “Don’t waste your vote on the lesser of two evils -vote Peace and Freedom Party: More committed to the next generation...than to the next election.” Text titles in red.
-Wald for U.S. Senate, dated February 17, 1976. Letter to campaign committee and supporters. 8.5 x 11,” two pages, front text only. Stapled in upper left corner. Information on what Dave Wald has achieved before the election. A few creases, else near fine.
-Letter to Susan and Bernie, dated 4/30/75 - 9:20 pm. Single sheet, 8.5 x 11,” text on front only. Contents about Freedom for the Indochinese People - a brief report on WCC activities since conference. A light tanning on the right edge, else very good +.
The following pack contains 30 pages...
-Stapled packet: First page is blank except for a title written in pen: “Calif PFP - Conference , Isla Vista 4/26 & 4/27/76.” Verso titled F&P Conference, April 26 and 27, 1975: Amendment To The Resolution On Self- Defense. 2) Half a page of typed note, front side only. 3) handwritten and copied: Help! We Need a Committee For “Parallel Strategies for Feminist Socialism” !! Text on front only. 4) Draft Peace & Freedom State Platform Plank on “Self-Defense.” Text on front only. 5) Collective Political Self-Defense. Text on front only. On verso are notes taking in pen. 6) Parallel or Alternate Strategic Overviews of the “Road to Socialism” The Syndicated Scientific Socialist
Overview by Ed Spira. Text on both sides. 7) P&F Conference, April 26 and 27, 1975. Amendment to the Resolution on Self-Defense. Text on front only. 8) Organizing For Socialism: A proposal to the California Peace and Freedom Party Conference, Santa Barbara, April 26 and 27, 1975. 5 pages, both sides, except for last page. 9) Feminist Socialism - A Dissenting View. Single sheet, text on front. 10) In 1975 Let US Support:....dated 4/26/75. Single sheet, front text only. Sponsored by the Peace and Freedom Party. 11) For Immediate Release: Single page, text on front over. Member of the Peace and Freedom Party announcing his intention to formally run as his party’s candidate for the state assembly 44th district. 12) Program: An Internal Publication of the State Central Committee, May 1975. Towards A Socialist Democracy. Yellow sheet with black text on both sides. Illustrations on front. 13) Pamphlet sized 5.5 x 8.5.” Politics & program development Conference: Oppose the Capitalist System—-Isla Vista...April 26 & 27. Yellow front and last page. Inserted is a white sheet giving specific information about the conference. 14) Dear State Central Committee and Peace & Freedom Party Activities, dated April, 1975. Text on both sides. 15) Draft Peace & Freedom State Platform Plank on “Self-Defense.” Double sided. 16) For Discussion and Program Development by the Other left groups Committee. 3 pages, double sided. 17) Feminist Socialism: No one exists for anyone else by Jill Raymond. 7 pages, double-sided. 18) Report From Alameda County by Ed Spira. 2 pages - double sides on the first and text only on the second. 19) Join Peace and Freedom-Organize for the Fight for Socialism. 20) A Statement on Politics & Unemployment. San Francisco Bay Area - Peace & Freedom Labor Committee. Single sheet, front text only. 21) How About A Program to Free Joanne Little. Yellow single page, text on both sides. The verso: Towards Feminist Socialism: Social Feminist Conference. Address in handwritten red pen on bottom of sheet.
End of Packet
- Peace & Freedom Party 1978 Platform: Adopted by State Convention, San Luis Obispo, CA. August 5-6, 1978. Two single sheets, 8.5 x 14,” front text only. Stapled in upper left corner Editing in red on left edge. 2nd sheet has a .5 tear on left edge. Further editing with the red pen, else near fine.
-3 pages of copy, with addresses on front side only. Date added by pencil on the right top corner. First page is missing 3 blank address squares, two pages are stapled in the upper left corner. Text on front only. The third page also addresses listed on front side. A few chips and minor tears. -Spring Newsletter Peace And Freedom Party State Central Committee. Four 8.5 x 14,” pages, text on both sides. Front page has date added in red pen to the upper middle of top edge - 6/1/ [year is not clear]. All pages have a small tear on the bottom middle edge, as if a paper clip was pulled out. Mild tanning on left edge of all pages, horizontal fold in middle. Verso of last page is a mailing sticker addressed to W. Callison in Oakland, Ca 94609.
-Small flyer to Peace and Freedom Party Members- asking all to vote for P&F’s candidate. Flyer is 6 x 7” double sided. Verso allows voters to contribute to the campaign by filling out a form with their specific details. -California Peace and Freedom Party Conference: Resolution on the People’s Bicentennial Commission - Apr. 26, 1975. Single sheet, 8.5 x 11.” front text only. Tanning on right and left edges, else near fine.
-A Call For a Workers’ Picnic And Learn-In, July 4, 1975. Single page, front text only - 8.5 x 11.” Text announces that July 4, 1975 will be the 199th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. “While the capitalists and politicians will be celebrating, the working class should use this day to study revolution historically and objectively. Tanning throughout, else very good +.
The following material are stapled together in upper right corner
-Peace & Freedom Party 1980 Platform: Adopted By State Convention, San Francisco, CA. August 2 & 3 1980. Yellow sheet, 8.5 x 14,” text on both sides. Second page - 11 x 8.5,” folded into thirds. Double sided, titled For An Authentic Socialist Alternative: Peace & Freedom In 1980. Third page is 12 x 9,” folded into thirds - Pamphlet for Dave Wald U.S. Senate, tanning on edges, else near fine.
New Folder: People’s Party S.L. Convention (August 25-31, 1975)
-Resolution on Unemployed Organizing (#1) (presented by the workshop on unemployed organizing) Single sheet 8.5 x 11,” front only. Tanning to the top edge, printing smudges (not effecting text). -Report of Program Workshop. 2 single- sided, 8.5 x 11” stapled upper left corner. -Resolved That the People’s Party
Advocates Adoption of a 200 mile fishing Limit. Upper right corner, written in red pen - “referred to Grass Roots for Study.” Single white half sheet stapled to other items in the packet: a) RESOLUTION FOR FURTHER
DEVELOPMENT OF 1976 ELECTORAL STRATEGY. Two Single sided sheets 8.5 x 11” with blue pen editing and handwritten notes. Added to the upper right corner, in red pen “defeated.” Second page with handwritten notes in blue pen and in upper right corner, red pen “passed with amendment unanimous.” b) Proposed Resolution for the People’s Party Convention (A Similar Resolution was passed last week by the National Student Association Convention) dealing with the struggle in Boston). Single-sided sheet, 8.5 x 11.” c) Background information for a proposed message of solidarity with the commoners. Upper right corner, in red pen “Passed.” d) Proposed letter in support of coalminers strike. Single sheet with editing and notes in blue pen at bottom of page. Red pen in upper right corner: “Passes.” e) Resolution, dated August 30, 1975. Editing and a list of those who second the resolution; upper right corner in red pen “passed.” f) Resolution on J.B. Johnson. Single- sided sheet with red pen in the upper right corner: “passed.” -Resolution on Party Structure: Resolved that the party structure be modified as follows...4 pages, single-sided and stapled in upper left corner. Editing throughout.
-Proposed Resolution: Solidarity Committees. Single-sided page. -Proposed Resolution on Aliens. Single-sided sheet. Upper right hand corner, in red pen: “not acted.” -A letter to the Resource Center People from Bill. Single-sided, 8.5 x 11” sheet, dated Sunday 9/7/75. He writes to the committee about things he wants done within the party. -General Principles of the People’s Party: More committed to the next generation than to the next election. 2 pages, stapled in upper left corner. Double-sided. Illustration of a root: “up from the roots!” Tanning to the back of the last sheet.
-FOREIGN POLICY. 2 pages, stapled in upper left corner. Dissatisfied by US foreign policy, the Peace Party gives suggestions on what to add and delete. -Resolution on Place and Date of the 1976 National Convention. Single-sided sheet. Tanning around edges.
-Yellow lined paper, 8.5. x 14.” Handwritten notes. -Resolution on Feminist-Socialism. Single sheet, 8.5 x 11.” Text on front. Handwritten names on bottom of sheet. Tanning around all edges. In upper right corner in red pen: “not acted on.” -Resolution on Unemploued (sic) Organizing (#2) - (presented by the workshop on unemployed organizing). Two single- sided pages, stapled in upper left corner. Tanning on edges. Upper right corner in red pen: “Not Passed.” -Resolution on the Environment. Single-sided sheet, text on front. In upper right corner, in red pen: “not acted on.” Tanning on upper edge and right edge. -Energy Resolution. Single-sided sheet, text on top. In upper right corner in red pen “Not acted.” -Convention Rules. Double-sided 8.5 x 14,” single green sheet, date in red pen - upper right corner. On back - Addendum to Convention Rules. -Working Paper: For the Preamble to the People’s Party National Platform. In red pen in upper right corner: “draft not passed.” Single sheet, text on both sides. -The People’s Party, Meeting in Convention, August 25-31, 1975, Sets The Following As its Organizational Principles. Single sheet, text on both sides. -Due to Unjust Taxes, Senseless Inflation and Millions Unemployed—This Petition Demands These Minimum Human Rights for ALL. 8.5 x 14,” folded in half the long way to make an 8.5 x
11” pamphlet. Upper right corner in red pen: ’75. In black pen, there is a handwritten note: A Suggestion Paper.....” -Letter: “Dear State Central Committee Member”: Single sheet, text on front, stapled on left side to: a yellow 8.5 x 11” BALLOT. Mailing address on back. Stapled to a yellow half sheet asking for the contributions to the People’s Party 1975 Convention Steering Committee. Mailing stamp on back.
-Working Paper: For A People’s Party Position on Labor. 5 single-sided sheets, stapled in upper left corner. In red pen dated on upper right corner - ’75. Tanning on all right edges. -The Party Line: An Internal Publication of the People’s Party, August 1975. Fourth National Convention St.Louis, August 26-31. 15 pages, text on both sides. 8.5 x 11” light blue cover with illustrations of different party slogans. The Convention Agenda is on the back of the last page. At bottom of page is a mailing label.
1975 People’s Party National Convention Agenda, dated Tuesday, August 26, 1975. Meeting from Tuesday, August 26 through Friday, August 29, 1975. 4 pages, front text only, stapled in upper left corner. Tanning on the top edge of first page, all pages starting to yellow. The Center for Science in the Public Interest Announces Food Day: April 8, 1976 - Education and Action. Back: Nutrition Action: a monthly publication on hunger, nutrition, and the food industry. Date added in red pen in the upper right corner: “S.L. 75.” Single yellow page, 8.5 x 11 inches, both sides. Offsetting on both sides.
Outline Prospective on Feminist Socialism. Single yellow page, text on both sides with tanning to most of front. Upper right corner in blue pen: “S.L. ’75. Offsetting on both sides. The New York Times - June 30, 1975. Single sheet,front side only. 14 x 8.5 inches. Upper right corner, dated in pen: “8/27/75.” Article: “Imagine This,” by Monroe H. Freedman. Folded horizontally, light tanning throughout. Nall for City Council. Blue page, 14 x 8.5.” Folded in thirds to create pamphlet. Inside pamphlet: Elizabeth Nall for City Council. Photographs throughout. ...and more
The Remaining files:
-Original folder #2 -Another huge stack of loose papers -PFP 1986 Campaign -Alameda County PFP -Drug Costs, Pharmaceutical Thugs, Etc. -Caucus -Peace & Freedom 6/90 -S.F. Chapter PFP
-12 AD Campaign -East Bay PFP -All CKAP
Together, a comprehensive look at the Peace Party, both its direction, efforts and effects, during the particularly turbulent time in American history. The 1970s saw much activism in the political, economic and social arena. We will see the results of this party’s efforts for many decades to come.
$ 3,000
2. HERESIE: A FEMINIST PUBLICATION ON ART & POLITICS Heresies - Group of 16 Issues, 1977-1992
New York: Heresies Colletcive, 1977-1992. 16 issues (14 issues are 8 1/2 x 11 and two are 10 x 12”). Illustrated bound wrappers; ca. 47-128pp. Publication sequence running as follows:
Issue #1, Issue #3 vol. 4 no, 6, Issue # 6 vol. 2 no. 2, Issue #7 vol. 2 no. 3, Issue # 8 vol. 2 no 4, Issue # 9 vol. 3 no. 1, Issue # 10 vol. 3 no. 2, Issue #11 vol. 3 no. 3, Issue # 12 vol. 3 no. 4, Issue # 13 vol 4 no. 1, Issue #14 vol. 4 no. 2, Issue # 15 vol 4 no 3, Issue # 17 vol. 5 no. 1, Issue #22 vol. 6 no. 2, Issue # 23 vol. 6 no. 3, Issue # 25 vol. 7 no. 2
Issues lightly edgeworn, with occasional chips along spine, scattered foxing and light staining. Overall in very good condition with Issue #14 had mild soiling and fading to wraps; Issue # 7 with some damage to back cover (some loss of photo).
HERESIES was an idea-oriented journal devoted to the examination of art and politics from a feminist perspective. The journal wass published from 1977 to 1992 by the Heresies Collective in New York, which was a group of feminist artists who brought their different perspectives to the revolutionary New York art scene of the 1970s. Its first issue explains:
“We are not only analyzing our own oppression in order to put an end to it, but also exploring concrete ways of transforming society into one that is socially just and culturally free.” -- from Heresies, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1977
Members of the Heresies Collective took turns compiling and editing issues of Heresies. The rotating editorial staffs gave each issue of Heresies a different look and focus. Initial members of the Heresies Collective included Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Harmony Hammond, Elizabeth Hess, Arlene Ladden, Lucy Lippard, Miriam Schapiro and May Stevens.
$1,200
3. [THE POETRY PROJECT]
SMITH, Patti; Joe Brainard (SCHNEEMAN, George) [Flyer]: Patti Smith / Joe Brainard
New York: The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, [1974]. Single sheet printed recto only. Two subtitles and non-color breaking horizontal folds, presumably from being mailed, else fine. The flyer announcing the poetry reading by Smith and Brainard at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church on May 15th, 1974 with an illustration of two white gloves on a black background. A reading from the same year that Smith’s first single debuted.
$1,200
4. [DRUGS] [PROMOTIONAL VINYL RECORD]
Sleep Rest Now. Play Later. Here’s How: Parest - 400 (methaqualone HCI)
Detroit: Parke-Davis/Columbia Special Products, [1970]. 45 rpm seven inch record produced by Parke-Davis to promote Parest-400 (methaqualone HCI), otherwise known popularly as Quaaludes. Few surface scratches to the vinyl, some light wear to the sleeve edges, otherwise very good example, and if the drugs don’t put you to sleep, the music certainly will with selections from Johnny Mathis and Ray Conniff and His Singers.
$250
5. [PAVING MACHINES]
Photographic Archive of the Foote Manufacturing Company’s Paving Machines
1910-1920s. An archive of 68 original photos of The Foote Manufacturing Company direct from the company’s files, obtained from the family estate in Nunda, N.Y. The Foote Company was a construction company in Nunda, N.Y. that produced a variety of paving machines. Founded in 1903 by Charles E. and Chester T. Foote, their original 1903 plant was replaced by a large modern brick structure in 1913. By 1918 they were producing power concrete mixers that were being shipped across the country and sold overseas. Their mixer was recognized at the San Francisco Exposition in 1913 and in 1926 the Company received the American Institute's gold medal, the first award ever made for road equipment. Continued improvements to their self propelled mixer-paver led to international recognition during World War II when their Multi-Foote 34E mixer was used to build runways wherever allied forces were located. The War Department recognized the Foote Company's war efforts in 1943 when the company and its employees received the first of three "E" awards, a joint Army/Navy Production Award. The Company was purchased by Blaw Knox in 1948; the Nunda plant was closed in 1955 and moved to Mattoon, Illinois.
68 original photos. Black and white; varying tones. Approximately 8 x 10 inches. Some are backed with canvas; others on thick photography paper. On verso, many of the photos have typed and holograph notes describing the photo and date with the Foote Company’s purple stamp – the make of the machine, name, where is was first shown, the photographer, etc. Light wear, minor soiling, some tanning to edges, tiny closed tears. Some of the photos are hole-punched (not effecting the image), - probably in a binder at one point. Overall very good condition.
$3500
6. POTTER, Mike (artist)
ATTENTION COLLEGE SENIORS APPLY TODAY… When considering your future remember that in the ‘80s…/An Ounce of Image is Worth a Pound of Substance/Reagan-Bush and Co. / Send recent photograph to: Republican Enterprises
Austin, Texas: Against the Grain Graphics/Bee Bop Publishing, [1985]. 20 3/4 x 27 inches. Signed by artist in a limited printing of which this is number 87/220. Near fine. None in trade (2014) and no holdings in OCLC.
$250
7. Wolvarines are Number 1. Warning Do Not Trust This Man - Check Them Out for Yourself
San Francisco, [1981]. 8.5 x 11 inches. Original black & white xerox. The original flyer for these two 1981 shows, one at the San Francisco Art Institute with the Dickheads and one at Fab Mab, with Frank Hymng and Barry Beam. Some wrinkling to top edge and a short closed tear and a small stain to verso. Very good.
$100
8. [WWI - WOMEN] COFFIN, Haskell [artist]
JOAN OF ARC SAVED FRANCE: WOMEN OF AMERICA SAVE YOUR COUNTR: BUY WAR SAVING STAMPS [poster]
[Washington, D.C.: United States Food Administration, The United States Printing & Lithograph Co.) 1918]. 20 ¼ x 30” in black frame. Original, lithograph, color poster. In upper left corner of bottom text block:
"W.S.S. war savings stamps issued by the United States Government." "No. S-2." Smoothed horizontal fold in center with minor creasing and wear, else near fine.
In wartime, women's roles were more often on the homefront: working in the home, doing men's work while many men left for the war, and, in this case, supporting the troops by raising funds. In this unusual example, their efforts were compared to actually fighting or leading troops, as Joan of Arc had done centuries earlier.
This World War I poster, issued by the United States Department of the Treasury, urges women to buy war savings stamps to help finance the war effort. The War Savings Stamps (W.S.S.) program aimed to instill patriotism in citizens as well as raise funds. This poster invokes the figure of Joan of Arc (circa 1412–31), the traditionally recognized patriot and martyr of France who led the fight against the English in the Hundred Years’ War. The illustration of a beautiful young Joan, raising her sword, is by Haskell Coffin (1878–1941), an American artist best known for his portrayals of women on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s Magazine, The American Magazine, Redbook, and other weekly and monthly magazines.
$550
9. GG ALLIN AND THE MURDER JUNKIES April 25 at Fastlanes II, Asbury Park, NJ [1995] - SIGNED
GG Allin and The Murder Junkies, Asbury Park, NJ poster from 1995. Limited to 20 prints. Signed and numbered 10/20 by the artist, Jim Altieri. Signed by band members, Merle Allin, Bill Weber and Dino. Horizontal fold, else very good.
G.G. Allin bills himself as the “sickest, most decadent rocker of all time.” Jailed for an 18-month sentence, Allin claims that the charge reflects nothing more than the Pod People’s (those that aspire to a manicured destiny) distaste for his Dionysiac lifestyle. The primitive, guttural yelpings of vicious, life-denying lyrics exist as a rhythm track for the impulsive theater that wells up from G.G.’s poisoned innards. Allin isn’t much of a rock and roll act as a vaunted practitioner of the peculiarly American game of chicken. There is a poignancy in Allin’s Romantic belief in the redemptive nature of the rock and roll dream.
$125
10. DAN WHITE TO BE RELEASED FROM SOLEDAD PRISON January, 1984 / Will he be free...before we are? May 21st City Hall rally San Francisco: Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Committee et. al., [1983]. 1 page. 8.5 x 11” flyer with a photo of the murderer and the prohibition circle around it. This flyer called for a rally protesting Dan White's release from jail after just over 5 years for the assassination of Harvey Milk and George Moscone on the fourth anniversary of his conviction. Days of rage. May 21 was the anniversary of Dan White's 1979 conviction of manslaughter for the murder of LGBT activist and SF Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The following day was Milk's birthday. White was released on January 6, 1984, and he committed suicide in his wife’s garage in October 1985.
$90
11. [WOMEN] [PROTEST] [VIETNAM WAR] - ANN ARBOR WOMEN FOR PEACE
“War is obsolete because there can be no winner” – President Johnson, 1964
Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor Women for Peace, [1960s]. Original, 8 ½ x 11 flyer, folded vertically once to produce 5 ½ x 8 ¼ inch anti-Vietnam War booklet. Some minor staining, else very good. A group of wives of the anti-war faculty at Michigan established their own group: Ann Arbor Women for Peace. These indomitable ladies organized demonstrations, rallies, and vigils, collected baby teeth to test for radiation, sent valentines to public figures who spoke out against war, distributed origami cranes for Hiroshima Day, were evicted from the local Veterans Day parade for carrying peace signs, and refused to be intimidated when questioned by HUAC.
$250
12. [Six different anti-gay brochures].
Washington: Family Research Institute, 1992-1998. Six different glossy brochures, 8 to 12 panels per brochure, 4x8.25 inches. Titles are "Medical consequences of what homosexuals do," "Violence and homosexuality," "The psychology of homosexuality," "Child molestation and homosexuality," "What causes homosexual desire and can it be changed," and"Born WHAT way?”
"Homosexuals rode into the dawn of sexual freedom and returned with a plague that gives every indication of destroying most of them... Imagine drinking urine, ingesting feces, and experiencing rectal trauma on a regular basis." The SPLC has called Paul Cameron's Family Research Institute a “one man statistical chop shop." Among the doubtful statistics contained herein are a gay (non-AIDS) lifesapan of 42 years, and a gay traffic accident rate 18 times that of straight white men of the same age. The proclivities of gay men to engage in murder and other crimes are "addressed" extensively.
$95
13. [United Farm Workers] Viva La Huelga! Hear Richard Chavez Sun-Oct. 14 7pm United Farm Workers’ continuing struggle for self- determination
Madison, WI: RPM Print Co-op, [1970s]. Offset lithograph poster with red text on light yellow poster paper. 11” x 17.5,” unbacked. Near the middle on the right edge, written in blue pen, “12-x-73 (uncertain of reference), else near fine.
Poster states that “Chavez is on the executive board of the U.F.W., director of Michigan Boycott and brother of Cesar Chaves / Boycott Grapes and Lettuce! Boycott Sentry! Boycott Memorial Union - Union South / Boycott Guild Liquor! Collector J. Welsey Miller’s stamp on verso with his signature handwritten in blue pen.
$250