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Creation Date
5-1970
Identification #
OGL291-211
Description
A black-and photograph depicting a large group of anti-war protestors gathered on a vast, open landscape. The image captures a pivotal counterculture peace demonstration held in rural North Dakota shortly after the Kent State University shootings.
In the center of the frame, a tall pole flies a large flag designed with the alternating horizontal stripes of the United States flag, but featuring a prominent peace symbol inside a stylized canton instead of stars. In the foreground, a handmade sign is staked into the ground reads: "People are for loving not killing." Directly behind the sign, a young person sits atop a white insulated cooler bearing the regional midwestern "Grain Belt" beer logo. Scattered across the midground, a dense crowd of young adults—many with long hair and wearing casual 1970s attire like denim, jackets, and patterned shirts—rest on blankets, talk, and gather in small circles on the ground.
Two pale balloons float in the upper left sky. and the background shows a long, flat dirt road extending toward a stark, barren horizon line under a clear sky.
Rights
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks