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Pamphlets, stickers, posters, and glasses for the upcoming solar eclipse (only two days away) inside the Texas Travel Information Center.
Gainesville, Texas
Saturday morning 6 April 2024
The Community Bookshop publishes a calendar for July 1972 that covers both radical history events and current meetings scheduled at the bookstore.
Community Bookshop was a left-wing, counterculture bookstore and community meeting place at 2028 P Street NW. Though not technically a part of the Washington Free Community, it served the role of an alternative bookshop/meeting place.
The bookshop started out on Washington Circle in the George Washington University neighborhood. In the late 1960s, the bookstore moved to the Dupont Circle neighborhood in 1970, itself a center of counterculture, anti-war, and leftist groups and residents. At the time, it was being run by Barbara Labinski.
The bookstore carried material from all stripes on the left, including books, pamphlets and newspapers. It’s eclectic approach to left wing causes is encapsuled in the calendar with events ranging from meetings of the food coop, film showing of Inside North Vietnam, a group marriage meeting, and a film showing of the Young Lords.
The bookstore also played a role in the early Gay Liberation Front where “members began lobbying the bookstore to stock queer magazines and books,” which it did. “Relations with the Gay Liberation Front were so warm that GLF's May 1972 Gay Pride celebration featured an evening of "Gay readings" at the bookstore,” according to Historypin.
For a PDF of this 11 x 17 inch, one-sided calendar see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1972-0...
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Original held in the Bonnie Atwood papers, 1965-2005, Collection, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
See our find of the month to read about the controversy around this pamphlet published by the Seattle-King County Youth Commission. Item 1, Box 127, Folder 12, Records of the Office of the Mayor (Record Series 5210-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.
A wooden gazebo on the side of US 220 in Warm Springs, Virginia. This gazebo serves as something of a tourist information and welcome center for Bath County.
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Organization: Literary Arts
Event Name: Bookmark
Event Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Event Location: Portland Art Museum
Photographer: Andie Petkus Photography
Pamphlets @ Left Of The Dail 17/10/2024
Pamphlets @ Left Of The Dail 17/10/2024
Pamphlets @ Left Of The Dail 17/10/2024
Pamphlets @ Left Of The Dail 17/10/2024
Pamphlets @ Left Of The Dail 17/10/2024
Pamphlets @ Left Of The Dail 17/10/2024
Ephemera related to MAC's history
