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Title: Sun Mad
Creator: Hernandez, Ester, Artist
Contributor: Hernandez, Ester, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
1982-01-01
1982-12-31
Publication Information: California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, cema@library.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-8563, URL: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection: Torres (Salvador Roberto) papers
Rights Information: Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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Description: Poster mimics the design of the Sun-Maid raisins box. Instead of a maid, however, is a skeleton. Text reads: "SUN MAD Raisins unnaturally grown with Insecticides, Miticides, Herbicides, Fungicides." "Salvador Torres as a young man picked grapes for W.A. Taylor Wine Co.-Almaden buys out WAT, Salvador Torres spends the summers of his adolescent years in rural and urban life styles. Los Baños, and Hollister, La Cienega, "San Benito Vineyards", housing/camp for the permanent farm workers. Ms. Hernandez "Sun Mad" comment on serious pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, are used by Salvador Torres in a lecture about the Toxic Racism Barrio Logan is enduring with deceptive City of San Diego Planning Department abuse of "Coexistence" fallacies between Plating & Welding Company's emitting 21.0 Hexavalent Chromium (ng/m) deadly cancerous chemicals in our Barrio Logan air spaces. See [Temp ID] #3-173-A Salvador Torres environmental rescue efforts. Salvador Torres recalls the dust croppers airplanes flying two wingers over and around our many farm workers campsites then spraying the near by crops. As children, Salvador Torres and others delighted in seeing the pilot, who sometimes would wave back to them as he roared past." Salvador Torres
The artist of any work retains all rights to that work. Copyright has not been assigned to the Regents of the University of California. The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. No further reproduction is permitted without prior written permission by the artist or copyright holder. Any requests for permission to reproduce this piece must be directed to: Salvador Roberto Torres c/o California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Library – CEMA, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106 Phone: (805) 893-8563 E-mail: cema@library.ucsb.edu
Type: image
Form/Genre: 35mm slide
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb838nb82t
CEMA 38
Language: English
Subject: Calaveras
Chicana art
Chicanas
Chicano art
Chicanos
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Prints
Pesticides

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