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1973

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2021

2025

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Chapbook, Cities and Other Disasters

This is a Chapbook. It was written by James Randall and designed by Cledie Taylor and published by Broadside Press. It is dated 1973 and we acquired it in 2021. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Ellen Lupton. It is credited Gift of Ellen Lupton.

Its dimensions are

21.6 × 14 × 0.3 cm (8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 1/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed in plate, lower right: C. Taylor

Cite this object as

Chapbook, Cities and Other Disasters; Designed by Cledie Taylor (American, born 1926); Written by James Randall; Published by Broadside Press; offset lithograph on paper; 21.6 × 14 × 0.3 cm (8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 1/8 in.); Gift of Ellen Lupton; 2021-34-2

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