The Berkeley Posters collection, housed in Rare Books & Special Collections at the UBC Library, comprises 250 posters from the years 1968 to 1973. Covering anti-war and pro-social justice themes the posters run the gamut of concerns of the time such as the Vietnam War and corporate responsibility. Produced by student and underground groups on the University of California Berkeley campus and around the San Francisco Bay Area the posters feature striking art and often used found materials such as used continuous form paper as in the featured image above (note the dot-matrix or line printing on the poster verso [back]). Highly ephemeral in nature the posters were collected by Helmut Jung of Gold River, British Columbia and donated to the UBC Library.
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Yvonne, now one can only see ONE poster – the other ones are invisible, why is this???
Hi Gyanda,
Sorry you were experiencing problems. It may have been an old link. Here is a link to the current collection https://open.library.ubc.ca/collection=berkpost. If you are still experiencing problems, please let us know.
Thank you.
Alex Kuskowski
Digitization Centre Coop Student
My uncle gave this collection to the library. It is so nice to still find traces of him on the internet!
Friendly greetings
Gyanda Jung, Cologne, Germany