DESCRIPTION: Uncommon 1978 pictorial map promoting the "Marijuana Trail," a series of counterculture gatherings, festivals, and political demonstrations across the United States and Canada during the spring and summer of 1978. Published in Yipster Times, the map combines a calendar of events with humorous illustrations reflecting the politics and cannabis culture of the period.
Headed "Join Yippie! On the Marijuana Trail Spring/Summer 1978," the map identifies gathering places and dates accompanied by regional caricatures, including Bigfoot smoking marijuana in Oregon, nude hippies in Colorado, and a Southern gentleman and banjo-playing hillbilly in Atlanta. Near Kent, Ohio, demonstrators carry signs reading "REMEMBER KENT STATE," recalling the killing of four students during antiwar protests in 1970.
The Youth International Party, whose members were known as Yippies, emerged in the late 1960s, combining radical political activism with satire, theatrical protests, and alternative journalism. By the late 1970s, marijuana legalization had become a major focus of the movement, with Yipster Times serving as a vehicle for organizing demonstrations and connecting activists.
An engaging example of counterculture cartography, adapting the traditional pictorial tourist map to political organizing and social commentary. The map provides a contemporary record of the marijuana legalization movement during the Carter administration.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1978
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Good.
Clean with minor age-toning. No major condition issues. A small amount of age-toning.
COLORING: Offset lithograph.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 15
" x
21 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 87
PRICE: $420
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