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Series III, Graphic Materials, 1884-2000, 1884-2000, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

Materials in this series document Buhle's research interest in graphic non-fiction materials as artistic medium, radical humor produced in the 1970s and 1980s, and his involvement in the effort to create a radical humor movement. Materials consist of numerous American and European satirical publications, including substantial materials from the surrealist humorists, Yiddish humorists, the Texas-based Church of the SubGenius, and the Italian New Left of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series also includes materials from Buhle's lectures and exhibits on radical humor, including the 1982 Radical Humor Show at New York University and the traveling Radical Humor Exhibit (1982-1985).

Arrangement

Series is arranged alphabetically.

Existence and Location of Originals Note

Series contains a substantial amount of photocopied cartoons and other graphic materials from a variety of institutions. The location of original items is sometimes indicated on the document; however, the location of some original items is unknown.

Adventures of Henry Dubb, circa 1912

Box: 8, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Aero, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Aftershock, 1981, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Agribiz Game, circa 1979, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Air Pirates Funnies, 1972, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ameringer, Oscar, Aug 1925-Apr 1939, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ammunition, 1983, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Appeal to Treason, 1982-1983, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Art Not War, circa 1980, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Austin Iconoclast Magazine, 1964, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Babushkin's Digest, Jan 1985-May 1987, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lee Baxandall and Naturalism, Jun 1989, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Edward Bellamy, 1938, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Berkeley cartoons, circa 1960, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bermack, Richard, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Billboards of the Future, circa 1980, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Bridge Too Far, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bulletin of the I.S. Gay Caucus, Jul 1971, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Capital Times, Jul 13, 1973, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Church of the Subgenius, 1971-1979, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Church of the Subgenius, 1980-1982, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Church of the Subgenius, 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Church of the Subgenius, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Collectors' Network News, Sep 1977-Dec 1977, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Comical Funnies, 1980, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Communism cartoons, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Communist Cartoons, 1982, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Crawford, J., undated

Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cronaca Souversiva, Jan 20, 1917, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Crumb, R., Mar 1981, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Corsaren, Nov 1978, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cultural Correspondence, 1974-1978, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cultural Correspondence, 1979-1980, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cultural Correspondence, 1981-1985, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Curious George Goes to Shul!", undated

Box: 9, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cynical Man, Apr 15, 1982, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Dance of Love" by Vaga Verdaqus, Feb 25, 1979, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Dawn, 1914-1919, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Demonstrations, 1934, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Der Arme Teufel, 1884-1888, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Diamond, Abby, 1969, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Did God Ordain the Holocaust?, 1981, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DiversiĆ³n, circa 1975, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Earth First!, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Economy cartoons, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The End of the World's Fair, Jan 1983-May 1984, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Estuary Press catalog, 1991, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Feminist cartoons, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Finnish Americana, 1992, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

First Strike?, 1983, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Friends of Progress record and tape club, 1982, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Freeze and Scream, 1982, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Funny Couch, 1983, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Good Morning, 1919-1921, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Groucho Marxism, 1980, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hawaiian graphics, 1909, 1945, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Health and Laughter", 1984, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"History of the Left Set to Supremes' Songs", Dec 30, 1982, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 5 (Honolulu, Hawaii), 1994, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

House of Humor and Satire, Nov 1982-Feb 1984, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Howe, Irving and Michael Harrington, Jun 17, 1984, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Humor in Art" exhibit at Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY, 1982, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

If, 1991, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Il Male, Apr 1978-Oct 1979, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Il Male, Nov 1979-Apr 1980, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Il Male, May 1980-Aug 1980, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Il Proletario, 1915-1921, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"In Good Conscience: The Radical Tradition in 20th-Century American Illustration", 2000, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Inside Joke, May 1982-Jun 1982, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

International Dictionary of Obscenities, May 1984, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

International Humor Movement, 1982, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

An International Treasury of Leftwing Humor, 1945, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jim's Letter, Apr 26, 1980, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor cartoons, 1873-1933, undated, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor's Joke Book by Paul Buhle, Feb 1985, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Laser Project, circa 1983, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Less Newspoems, 1971, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lovecraft, H.P., Aug 1990, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lyons, Lisa, 1968, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mangan, Sherry, 1983, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Match!, 1985, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

May Day, 1936, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Mill Hunk Herald, 1983-1984, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Molot, May 15, 1921, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Moorish Science Monitor, 1987, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mother Jones posters, 1993, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mucus, 1984-1985, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Nadir, Moishe, circa 1961, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The National Grange Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New York Pioneer, 1887, 1894, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Not Available Comics, 1983, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Perlman, Freddy, circa 1968, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographic prints (1 of 2 folders), undated

Box: 10, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographic prints (2 of 2 folders), undated

Box: 10, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Playboy, Jan 1983, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pop-Iliev, Jordan, circa 1970-1980, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Post New York Post, Nov 1984, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Processed World, 1982, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Protect the Rights of the Unconceived" by Don Fitz, Mar 1983, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Puma Blues, 1986-1987, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Puma Blues, 1987-1989, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Radical America, 1969, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Radical Humor, Oct 1982, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Radical Humor Art Show (1 of 2 folders), 1982, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Radical Humor Art Show (2 of 2 folders), 1982, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Radical humor festival, 1982, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Radical humor lecture and slide show, circa 1984, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Radical Rag, 1968, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Real Hep! Comics, 1981, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Realist, 1962, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Rebel Worker, Jun 1966, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Red Sky Blue Sky, Sep 1970, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Religion cartoons, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rhode Island Voice, 1982, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rhubarb, 1982-1984, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Rip-Saw Mother Goose by Henry M. Tichenor, 1912, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rius (Eduardo del Rio), circa 1976, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rumbles!, 1980, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Search and Destroy, 1977-1979, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Shevchenko, Taras, Mar 1964

Box: 11, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Shmate, 1983, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sinister Wisdom, 1977, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialism cartoons, 1901-1979, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, 1994, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Space City!, 1971, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Square Pegs, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Students for a Democratic Society, Aug 19, 1968, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Surrealist movement, 1969-1973, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Surrealist movement, 1979-1989, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Suvanto, K.A., undated

Box: 11, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tacky World, 1982, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Talkin' Union: Music, Lore, and History, Dec 1985, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tongue, 1983, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Twisted Image, 1982, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Tuber's Voice: The Couch Potato Newsletter, 1980-1984, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Underground Comix" essay by Don Schenker, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Urban Humor in Houston", undated

Box: 11, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Vanguardian, circa 1978, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Voices of the Left, 1870-1960" exhibit catalog, 1960, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wage Slave World News, Jan 1989, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weirdo, 1982, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"What's the Use in Laughing?" Country Life, 1978, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

John Greenleaf Whittier, 1888, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Win, 1977, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Winds of Change, Aug 1980-Sep 1981, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wood, Wally, circa 1967, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Workers' Democracy, 1985, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World War 3 Illustrated, 1984-1986, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Yiddish cartoons, 1913-1943, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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