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What’s on your Earth Day Poster?

Album Description

Using the Library of Congress Earth, Ecology or Environment Posters as models (see some examples in this album) discuss the posters meaning and possible impact with students.  Next challenge students to reflect on and draw, or take a photo and create an Earth Day poster that is personally meaningful to them.

There are some wonderful Earth Day resources in this post and the comments in our TPS Teachers Network thanks to   Lisa Fink,   Margaret Lincoln and  Julie Schaul.

  Earth Day   Environment   Ecology   Posters 

Earth day--April 22, Union Square, Fifth Avenue / Yukihisa Isobe, designer ; Environmental Action Coalition.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2015648328/

Reference note

Summary

  • Poster showing two arrows forming circle around two half circles.

Created / Published

  • [1970] (Westbury, New York : Printed at Westbrook Lithographers, Inc.)

Genre

  • Political posters--American--1970
  • Prints--American--Color--1970

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
  • -  Published in: Prop art / Gary Yanker. New York : Darien House, 1972.

Repository

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The Whole earth is watching

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016648782/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [between 1965 and 1980]

Genre

  • Posters--American--1960-1980
  • Prints--1960-1980

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  "Earth Day, 16 Fulton St., N.Y.C. 10038."
  • -  Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
  • -  Exhibited: "Victor Papanek : The Politics of Design" at the Vitra Design Museum, Wien am Rheim, Germany, Sept. 2018 - March 2019.

Repository

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Clean air is a product of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2015649425/

Reference note

Summary

  • Poster showing two children and cattails in foreground and mountain in background.

Created / Published

  • [between 1965 and 1980]

Genre

  • Posters--American--1960-1980
  • Prints--American--Color--1960-1980

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
  • -  Published in: Prop art / Gary Yanker. New York : Darien House, 1972.

Repository

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We the Future - Are Earth Guardians

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2021635611/

Reference note

Summary

  • Poster shows portrait of Xiuhtezcatl Martinez.

Created / Published

  • [Seattle] : Amplifier, 2020.

Genre

  • Portraits--2020
  • Inkjet prints--2020
  • Posters--2020

Notes

  • -  Title transcribed from item.
  • -  Alternate title from Amplifier website.
  • -  Alternate title from scan request sheet.
  • -  "The We the Future campaign showcased ten young leaders representing ten diverse movements, each already building us a better world. They are drafting and passing legislation. They are working on climate justice, criminal justice reform, voting rights, immigration rights, disability justice, gun reform, queer rights, and literacy. Their work is nonpartisan, and it carries the energy of countless communities from every background. In a time of uncertainty these icons show us a path forward, and they show us that the future is already here." Amplifier website
  • -  On bottom right corner: @Xiuhtezcatl + @Earthguardians + @Obeygiant + Amplifier.org
  • -  Gift; Anonymous; 2020; (DLC/PP-2020:121).

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 71640 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.71640

Your now decisions shape tomorrow's environment

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017646847/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [ca. 1972]

Genre

  • Posters--American--1970-1980
  • Prints--Color--1970-1980

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Repository

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Environmental town meeting : the environment is everybody's business

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016649867/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [between 1965 and 1980]

Genre

  • Posters--American--1960-1980
  • Prints--Color--1960-1980

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Repository

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Pollution [New York]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2020737132/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [between 1970 and 1980]

Genre

  • Slides--Color--1970-1980

Notes

  • -  Title based on information from slide mount and other caption information provided by the photographer.
  • -  Photo agency: Pictorial Parade Inc. 130 W. 42nd ST., New York.
  • -  On mount: A-72, 583 and A.
  • -  Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032).

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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Progress?

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016651718/

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Summary

  • Poster showing heavily congested traffic scene, U.S. Capitol in background, pollution coming from jet and plant.

Created / Published

  • [between 1969 and 1980]

Genre

  • Posters--American--1960-1980
  • Prints--Color--1960-1980

Notes

  • -  "To find out what you can do to help stop this mess, write or call Environment! 119 Fifth Avenue ... "
  • -  "Photo courtesy of the Washingtonian magazine. 1969 Washington magazine Inc."
  • -  Cf. POS 6 - U.S., no. 1022 (same image used).
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
  • -  Published in: Prop art / Gary Yanker. New York : Darien House, 1972.

Repository

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I sent a bird into the air... he didn't find any, anywhere

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016648756/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [between 1965 and 1980]

Genre

  • Posters--American--1960-1980
  • Prints--Color--1960-1980

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
  • -  "#1, Save us from ourselves series, Festoon, Inc."

Repository

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Have you littered lately?

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2015648337/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [between 1965 and 1980]

Genre

  • Posters--American--1960-1980
  • Prints--1960-1980

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Repository

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It's later than you think : join our mass march on April 4

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016651704/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [between 1965 and 1980]

Genre

  • Posters--American--1960-1980
  • Prints--1960-1980

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Repository

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We hate to see our name tossed around like this

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016649078/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [between 1965 and 1980]

Genre

  • Photographs--Reproductions--1960-1980
  • Posters--American--1960-1980
  • Prints--Color--1960-1980

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Repository

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Smoke over Des Moines, why Des Moines Public Forums / / designed & made by Iowa Art Program, W.P.A.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/98512479/

Reference note

Summary

  • Poster announcing a citywide public forum with the St. Louis Smoke Commissioner to be held at Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa, and neighborhood forums with Royal H. Holbrook. Illustration shows smoke pouring out of a smokestack.

Created / Published

  • [Iowa] : Iowa Art Program, WPA, [between 1936 and 1941]

Genre

  • Posters--1930-1950
  • Screen prints--Color--1930-1950

Notes

  • -  Date stamped on verso: Jan 29 1941.
  • -  Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3f05268 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05268