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Image features a rock concert poster showing a face in profile, surrounded by pink, black, and grey streams of flowing, wavy hair. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.

The face is surrounded by pink, black, and light grey streams of flowing, wavy hair. Within the hair, one can read the following text in thick, curving bubble letters: in pink, upper left: OTIS RUSH / & HIS CHICAGO BLUES BAND; in black, upper right: GRATEFUL / DEAD; center right: THE ⋮ CANNED / HEAT BLUES / BAND; in pink, center right: FR ⋮ SAT ⋮ SUN / FEBRUARY / 24 ⋮ 25 ⋮ 26 / FRI ⋮ SAT ⋮ 9 PM ⋮ $3.00 / SUN ⋮ 2 • 7 PM ⋮ $2.00; in light grey, across bottom: AT THE FILLMORE.

Featured Image: Poster, Otis Rush & His Chicago Blues Band, Grateful Dead, The Canned Heat Blues Band at the Fillmore, 1967; Designed by Wes Wilson (American, b. 1937) for Bill Graham (American, b. Germany, 1931–1991); Printed by West Coast Lithograph Co. (San Francisco, California, USA); Offset lithograph on white wove paper; 57 × 34.9 cm (22 7/16 × 13 3/4 in.); Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer, 1979-34-28