Scope and Contents This restaurant menu from Cleveland, OH vegetarian restaurant Genesis 1:29 features a fully hand-drawn design with city sights and messages to the customer drawn in the margins. Messages to the customer include: the biblical verse Genesis 1:29 for which the restaurant is named, "Distinguish between a menu and a food," a request to tip their server, "Remember: life is too important to waste time having fun," and a note that food prices have increased and increased prices reflect their higher...

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This press photograph was taken at Stephen Gaskin's Summertown, TN commune called The Farm. It shows a group of women preparing a vegetarian meal in the kitchen of one of the shared houses in the community, with laundry hanging on lines overhead.

Scope and Contents This pamphlet, published around 1970 by the Alternatives Foundation, outlines the Jolly Road Farm commune's 35-point Personal Ecology Program for living an environmentalist lifestyle. Focused on both environmental health and human health, the pamphlet includes recommendations to reduce waste, reduce or eliminate use of environmentally unfriendly products, be more energy efficient, stop smoking, eat organic and vegetarian, etc. The program was also concerned about overpopulation....

Scope and Contents These four buttons from the late 1960s promote the use of LSD, and drug use in general. An orange button reads, "Make love on LSD." Another button reads, "Make acid a sacrament," around an image with a tab of acid with light radiating from it, overing over a chalice that appears to be struck by electricity in multiple places. A blue button reads, "Acid" and then repeats the word "love" six times beneath it. A white button reads, "God is on a trip." The creators of these buttons are...

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This folder contains peace movement ephemera from the 1960s. The contents include a peace sign button and two peace stickers. One sticker shows a peace sign that reads "peace" underneath The other sticker shows a modified US flag with a peace sign where the stars would normally be.

Scope and Contents This flyer from the Youth International Party, titled "People, Get Ready" advertises an International Youth Festival in Chicago from August 25-30, 1968. It was timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. The flyer says that "Johnson and his delegates, locked in their slaughterhouse conventionhall [sp] theatre, will make ugly speeches and play ugly campaign music, while we, the living breathing youth of the world, will make the city a theatre." The flyer claims that the...

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This pin was created by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam for their October 21, 1967 protest at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The pin features an orange sky with a floating black pentagon shape over black grass. Beneath the grass is the text "The Pentagon is Rising October 21."

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This folder contains a press photo of a February 1967 anti-Vietnam War protest at the Pentagon in Washington, DC by the Women Strike for Peace organization, as well as a button produced by the group which reads, "Women strike for Peace: Bring all our men home now!" The back of the press photo includes a newspaper clipping from the Kansas City Times dated February 16, 1967 showing the same picture.

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This button from around 1968 features the Peace and Freedom Party logo with dove and chains around the organization name. The logo is in neon green against a darker green background.