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Washington, DC: Office of War Information, 1943. 22-1/4 by 16 inches. OWI Poster no. 55. Poster depicting a woman in a headscarf and uniform operates a machine, perhaps a lathe. Despite the vast number of posters issued by government agencies during the Second World War, this is one of the few depicting women doing traditionally male jobs, like manufacturing. Not much has been written about the artist, but he produced many magazine and advertising illustrations. ISBN: 281AIB1017649.

1977. Four color poster, 27 by 40 inches. Crow Dog, an Ogala Sioux, was a prominent member of the American Indian Movement, and a strong advocate for reestablishing Native American spiritual traditions as well as securing civil rights for the indigenous peoples of the United States. The poster was probably issued to promote the documentary Crow Dog. No holdings in OCLC. ISBN: 281AIB1017929.

Washington, DC: (n.p.), 1971. Broadside poster, 11 by 17 inches. A poem published in the form of a poster for a May Day protest in Washington, DC, May 1 through 7, 1971. The first separate appearance of this poem, which ran in Quicksilver Times, March 17, 1971; it was later collected in Ginsberg Verbatim. Uncommon. Morgan, The Works of Allen Ginsberg, AA16. Two copies on OCLC (Northwestern, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). ISBN: 281AIB1014451.

New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co, 1914. 6 pages. The multi-talented Johnson was an early black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a Consul in Latin America, and the author of a number of books. In his spare time, he wrote songs like this one, in partnership with Will Marion Cook, one of the leading African American composers of his day. ISBN: 281AIB1024330.

[Delano, CA?]: [United Farm Workers], [1968]. Original screenprint poster, 20 by 14 inches. The UFW supported Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election and adopted a slogan based on his triple-H initials: HHH Si! Si! Si!. This poster combines the slogan with the UFW eagle printed in the colors of the Mexican flag: green shading into red on a white background. The pinback buttons from this campaign are common; the poster is not. ISBN: 281AIB0111875.

Tacoma: Smith-Digby Co, 1924. 93 pages. The author was a member of a pioneer family in Steilacoom, Washington, a lawyer, and supposedly a fluent Chinook speaker. A relatively scarce book on the lingua franca of Northwest American trade and perhaps the only one compiled by a woman. ISBN: B000X6OOEY.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. 271 pages plus ads. A romance novel in which a lawyer asks a young woman to marry a rich client, try the relationship out for one year with no obligation, and then decide to stay or go. This is the first of two novels by Corley, a New York magazine writer who later became a district supervisor of the Greensboro, North Carolina, Federal Writers’ Project (see Lesser-Known Writers blog). Corley (nee Works) met the aspiring writer and illustrator Donald Corley in 1916 and married him three days later. They split up within a year. ISBN: 281AIB1029010.

(N-pl. but Tarzana, CA): (Andrew Zermeno), 2010. 154 pages. 8.5 by 11 inches. Self published collection of short stories written and illustrated by the main graphic artist for the United Farm Workers, known for creating the political cartoons the appeared in El Malcriado, the official organ of the UFW. As in Zermeno's political cartoons, the stories here--perhaps closer to a graphic novel in form--are populated by allegorical types: el patron, el coyote, the Filipino or Mexican farmworker, the scab, etc. ISBN: 281AIB0107584.

Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Historical Society, 2001. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. 122 leaves printed one side (rectos) only. With a 16-page appendix of illustrations laid in. ISBN: B0050G367I.

Eureka, CA: Northcoast Ripsaw, 1969. 8 pages. Tabloid newspaper "for door-to-door distribution during the November mobilization." An anti-war paper, with a centerfold calling on President Nixon to bring the troops home alongside a listing of the Humboldt County residents killed in Vietnam. ISBN: 281AIB1023713.

Sausalito, CA: 1969. 8 pages. A reprint from The Black Scholar journal in which Baraka offers seven African terms to define a value system for all black people. Uncommon in this first edition; the work was reprinted by Jihad Productions in 1970. ISBN: B003S9FTJW.

(N.-pl.): Hospital Social Service, 1931. Pp. 108-112. Offprint. A talk given by Spinden, the Curator of Ethnology at the Brooklyn Museum, at the June 1930 National Conference of Social Work. He roundly criticizes federal Indian policy, particularly the Indian school system, and proposes an educational approach based on the pre-Columbian achievements of Native Americans. Despite good intentions, he seems more impressed with aboriginal native peoples than modern Indians, referring to the graduates of Indian schools as "human trash.". ISBN: 281AIB1019247.