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Punk culture and art.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Necros correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 8174
Content Description

The collection consists of mail from fans sent to the band's Maumee, Ohio Post Office Box between ca 1980 and 1985. Includes approximately 246 pieces of mail from across the United States, including one from Alaska accompanied by an Alaskan hardcore flyer from 1983, and some letters from other countries such as Canada, Finland, and Italy. Most are still in their envelopes, and many include artwork, scene reports, or enclosures such as flyers.

Dates: 1980 - 1985

Punk flyers for shows at The Hot Club in Philadelphia

 Collection
Identifier: 8171
Content Description

A collection of 35 show flyers for bands that performed at The Hot Club, located at 21st and South Street in Philadelphia, a venue in operation between 1977 and 1980. Bands and performers include The Cure, The Dead Boys, The Clash, Bloodless Pharaohs, Squeeze, Richard Hell and The Voids, The B-52's, Plasmatics, and Gang of Four.

Dates: 1979 - 1980

Susan Marquis Washington DC punk materials

 Collection
Identifier: 8175
Content Description The collection includes 34 flyers for Washington DC club venues, ca. 1979-1981, many advertising performances by the Slickee Boys, but also including national acts like the Cramps, XTC, Magazine, Lydia Lunch, Cheap Perfume, Shrapnel, and the Records. Also included is associated ephemera such as a Susan Marquis Slickee Boys business card, bumper stickers, Christmas cards signed by band members, a 1982 issue of "Slickzine", the Slickee Boys own fanzine, newsprint issues (1978 and 1982)...
Dates: 1978 - 1985

West Coast Punk and New Wave Club flyers

 Collection
Identifier: 8129
Abstract

This collection from a West Coast club promoter offers a glimpse of punk and new wave influenced music, art, film, and underground culture in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Dates: ca 1979-1982.