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POLICE BILL: WHO FOOTS THE BILL?

Theme: Making posters in South Africa: Shattering the silence


Call Number: 525
Identifier: AL2446_0525
Title: POLICE BILL: WHO FOOTS THE BILL?
Date: 1976
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Legislation;
Police;
Police bill
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black and yellow, produced by Emile Maurice and issued by the Projects Committee Library, University of the Witwatersrand, late 1976 or early 1977. The image depicts a hand that holds a stamp marked “Police Bill”. Also note the early use of the Hector Pieterson image. The text reads: “POLICE BILL WHO FOOTS THE BILL?” Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 5 (number 6) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 58 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007.
Contributor: Projects Committee Library, University of the Witwatersrand
Creator: Emile Maurice
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpg
Preservation image - tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some material is held by individual postermakers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information
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