Single sided flyer promoting the March on Washington, held on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Flyer text includes, "We demand: Meaningful Civil Rights Legislation, Massive Federal Works Program, Full and Fair Employment, Decent Housing, The Right to Vote, Adequate Integrated Education. ... [details]
Flyer promoting happenings and readings held at the Smolin Gallery, May 24, [1963]. Events advertised included "Yam Hat Sale" presented by Alison Knowles, poetry readings by Frank O'Hara, James Brodey, Frank Lima, Allen Kaplan, and Anthony Towle, and a theatrical production, "First and Second Wilderness ----" and "A Civil War Parlor Game," by Michael Kirby. [details]
Long, accordion folded flyer advertising tickets for performances of Aileen Passloff and Dance Company held on Saturday, May 25, 1963 at Kaufmann Concert Hall, New York. Dancers included Martha Charney, Barbara Lloyd, Phillip Rice, Joanna Vischer, and Vincent Warren. ... [details]
Single sided flyer / announcement calling for a rent strike [organized by CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)] in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem neighborhoods in New York in 1963 in response to the white supremacist terrorist bombing of a Birmingham church which killed four black children and injured others. ... [details]
![Maytime [aka : MAYTIME YAMTIME. YAM FESTIVAL CALENDAR]](/objects/images/s23402.jpg "Maytime [aka : MAYTIME YAMTIME. YAM FESTIVAL CALENDAR]")
Double sided oversized flyer / poster / calendar for Yam Festival events presented at Smolin Gallery, New York, May 1 - 31, 1963. Design credited to George Brecht and Robert Watts. Calendar notes events held daily through the course of the month of May. ... [details]
Unique drawings on a found black-and-white image torn from a book or magazine of a man exercising. Wings are drawn on the man and three snake-like forms surround the photographs. Signed twice by Johnson and dated June 8 - Raymond, (Saroff). ... [details]
A hand-made Christmas card by Smithson, featuring an offset reproduction of a collage of the Coca-Cola Santa Claus, The Creature from The Black Lagoon, and an outer-space scene. Interior has rubber-stamp printing of "Santa Claus vs. ... [details]
![A Book About Death : [Aunt Fritzi -- What's This?] [Page Three]](/objects/images/s25532.jpg "A Book About Death : [Aunt Fritzi -- What's This?] [Page Three]")
The third page of an ongoing mail art project by Ray Johnson, sent out in [1963]. The pages, collectively referred to as "A Book About Death," were sent out as individual pages by Ray Johnson to friends and associates between 1963 and 1965. [details]
![A Book About Death, [Cigar Bands] [Page Two]](/objects/images/s25529.jpg "A Book About Death, [Cigar Bands] [Page Two]")
The second page of an ongoing mail art project by Ray Johnson, sent out in [1963]. The pages, collectively referred to as "A Book About Death," were sent out as individual pages by Ray Johnson to friends and associates between 1963 and 1965. [details]
![A Book About Death : [Andy Warhol Postage Stamps] [Page Five]](/objects/images/s25530.jpg "A Book About Death : [Andy Warhol Postage Stamps] [Page Five]")
The fifth page of an ongoing mail art project by Ray Johnson, sent out in [1963]. The pages, collectively referred to as "A Book About Death," were sent out as individual pages by Ray Johnson to friends and associates between 1963 and 1965. [details]
