{"id":7568,"date":"2018-11-07T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=7568"},"modified":"2018-11-06T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T22:13:53","slug":"one-image-many-contexts-sharing-and-connecting-primary-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2018\/11\/07\/one-image-many-contexts-sharing-and-connecting-primary-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"One Image, Many Contexts: Sharing and Connecting Primary Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hot Town – Pigs in the Streets… poster, DePaul Special Collections and Archives, SpCG. 977.311043 H832s1968<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you ever noticed an iconic image in multiple settings or used in different ways?\u00a0 Perhaps a Campbell\u2019s soup can label on an Andy Warhol canvas?\u00a0 While not bearing an image as widely known, a poster<\/a> in Special Collections and Archives can be visually appreciated in different contexts as well.\u00a0 Created by Michael James in August of 1968, the poster with the text \u201cHOT TOWN \u2013 PIGS IN THE STREETS\u2026\u00a0 BUT THE STREETS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE!\u00a0 DIG IT?\u201d was produced in the weeks leading up to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.\u00a0 The provocative text and images foreshadow the eventual confrontation between Chicago Police and anti-Vietnam War activists.<\/p>\n

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Second City<\/em>, June 1969 photograph, DePaul Special Collections and Archives, SpC. 071.05 S445g<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Additional materials from the same era often provide insight on how a primary source may have been used in the time of its creation.\u00a0 An article from an independent newspaper in DePaul\u2019s collections offers visual evidence in this way.\u00a0 A photograph In the June 1969 issue of Second City<\/a><\/em> contains the same \u201cHot Town\u2026\u201d poster, seen on the wall behind a Black Panther Party (BPP) press conference.\u00a0 The press conference on May 29, 1969, was held to denounce the 2-5 year sentence of BPP leader Fred Hampton, convicted of robbing an ice cream truck.\u00a0 Pictured at the table is Luis Cuza (Young Lords Organization), Les Coleman (Students for a Democratic Society), Bobby Rush (BPP), and William \u201cPreacherman\u201d Fesperman (Young Patriots Organization).\u00a0 The divisive term \u201cpigs\u201d is used throughout the article to identify local government officials and police as oppressors operating above the law.\u00a0 The poster in the accompanying photograph reinforces the strained relationship between local activists and those associated with law enforcement.\u00a0 A reproduction of this photograph is currently on display in the Richardson Library exhibit Young Lords Organization: The Early Years<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics exhibition<\/em>,<\/a> MoCP, photograph by Jonathan Castillo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DePaul\u2019s original \u201cHot Town\u2026\u201d poster is currently out on loan and can be viewed as part of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago\u2019s exhibition The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Displayed with Chicago artist Ralph Arnold\u2019s 1968 collage\u00a0One Thing Leads to Another<\/a><\/em>, the poster provides additional context for the identical image of a cop with a helmet and sunglasses visible in two places in the lower portion of the artwork.\u00a0 Seeing the intact poster as source material offers viewers the opportunity to further contemplate both the meaning of the collage and the impact of the original poster.<\/p>\n

The DePaul Art Museum<\/a> also loaned MoCP another Ralph Arnold collage circa 1968, Who You\/Yeah Baby<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Regarding the collaboration, DPAM Director and Chief Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm notes that \u201cby lending this collage to MoCP for their important survey of Arnold\u2019s work, the new scholarship and writing they have created around the exhibition will in turn enhance our understanding of the work in our collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

DePaul Special Collections and Archives acquired the \u201cHot Town\u2026\u201d poster in 2016 to complement our holdings on Chicago activism, and we envisioned its use in a protest-themed exhibit in 2018. \u00a0When MoCP contacted Special Collections and Archives to inquire about its possible inclusion in the Ralph Arnold exhibition, the choice to lend the poster was clear. The original poster is a striking companion to Arnold\u2019s collage, and, as it turns out the poster still makes an appearance in our 2018 exhibit on the Young Lords Organization, as noted above.\u00a0 Archival documents are strongest in context, interpreted through their associations with other materials created, used, and collected in the same time and place.\u00a0 That the \u201cHot Town\u2026\u201d poster can be seen in use and re-used in two different exhibits is a testament to its resonance fifty years ago and the enduring impact of its iconographic message.<\/p>\n

To learn more about\u00a0DePaul Special Collections and Archives<\/a>, visit us in room 314 of the John T. Richardson Library or contact us at\u00a0libguides.depaul.edu\/askspca<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information on the “Hot Town…” poster, check out Season 8,\u00a0episode\u00a08<\/a> of the PBS series History Detectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed an iconic image in multiple settings or used in different ways?\u00a0 Perhaps a Campbell\u2019s soup can label on an Andy Warhol canvas?\u00a0 While not bearing an image as widely known, a poster in Special Collections and Archives can be visually appreciated in different contexts as well.\u00a0 Created by Michael James in <\/p>\n

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