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Original Vintage Poster: MARY "MOTHER" JONES - San Francisco Poster Brigade
Poster ID: CL92754
Category: Political/Protest
Designer: Rachael Romero / San Francisco Poster Brigade
Year: 1970s
Country: American
Approximate Size 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Very Good
Price: $200
In stock

c.1979 Poster with a portrait of Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), "known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-American labor organizer, schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the trade union Industrial Workers of the World" (Wikipedia). Quote by her reads: "I belong to a class who have been robbed, exploited, and plundered down through many long centuries, and because I belong to that class I have an instinct to go and break the chains." "The San Francisco Poster Brigade, originally called the Wilfred Owen Brigade, was co-founded by artist Rachael Romero in the San Francisco Bay area in 1975. In 1980 they began the Internationalist Art Show: Anti WW3, a mail-art phenomenon in San Francisco. The show became a festival of art, poetry, dance and performance, travelling to Los Angeles, Tucson, New York City and back to San Francisco until 1982." (George Mason University Libraries)

Keywords: Politics,labor,portrait,resistance ,Socialism in America,Strong women,Rachael Romero / San Francisco Poster Brigade