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Draft Problems?

Poster
1968 (made)
Artist/Maker
Advocate Press (publishers)
Place of origin
United States (made)

Grid format with text throughout and the image of a nude, muscular man trapped in the lower right square. Printed on blue paper.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleDraft Problems? (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph
Paper
Ink
Offset Lithography
Brief description
"Draft problems? See Us!" Poster offering student counselling by a member of the Society of Friends [Quakers]. Black ink on blue paper. USA, 1968.
Physical description
Grid format with text throughout and the image of a nude, muscular man trapped in the lower right square. Printed on blue paper.
Dimensions
  • Height: 43.2cm
  • Width: 28cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Draft Problems?/ Information on/ Registration/ Appeals/ Prison/ Emigrations/ Resistance
  • SEE
  • Draft Action Group/ Dwight Hall Office/ Drop in 2-4 PM/ or call 865-4982/ for an appointment
  • Special C.O. Counselling by Ron Evans, Graduate Fellow of Dwight Hall/ Memeber of the Society of Friends (Quakers), has worked for the central/ committe for conscientious objectors
  • Call EXT 2116 for an appointment (written in black ink pen)
  • THE ADVOCATE PRESS (across lower margin, centre)
  • Yale/ Dec 13, 1968 (written in pencil on reverse, lower right corner)
  • SEE US!
Credit line
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Production
posted on the Yale University Campus
Subjects depicted
Protest
Politics
Propaganda
War
Man
Vietnam War
Place depicted
United States
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1453-2004

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Record createdAugust 12, 2004
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O101720/draft-problems-poster-advocate-press/
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