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(VIETNAM WAR.) Portfolio titled "October 16, Stop the Draft Week, Oakland Induction Center." 20 prints, most 14 x 11 inches, 3 of them 14 x 22 inches with a fold, each printed in a different color on colored paper. Laid in the original illustrated paper portfolio, minor wear. Palo Alto, CA: Midpeninsula Observer, [1967 or 1968]
"Stop the Draft Week" was held during the week of 16 October 1967, featuring antiwar demonstrations and draft card burnings across the nation. This portfolio contains 20 photomechanical reproductions of photographs from the demonstrations, apparently in the Oakland area. It was issued by the Midpeninsula Observer, an alternative magazine issued biweekly under that name through July 1968. The images were done by nine different photographers; each image bears a letter indicating the photographer as keyed to the portfolio. The images are uncaptioned, but in some images the police can be seen wearing Oakland badges, one protestor wears a hat reading "Oakland," and the city's Hotel San Pablo can be seen in the background of another image. On the cover of the portfolio is an image of protesters with "Hell No! Nobody Goes!! End the War" scrawled on the sidewalk. It was printed by Nowels Publications in Menlo Park, California. The portfolio has no table of contents and the prints are not numbered, but another auction house has offered an example with 18 prints, Yale University holds one with 16, and the Bancroft Library at Berkeley has another set with an indeterminate number. The present example may be complete; it is the most complete we have traced.
