Photograph Photograph

Touchin' Velvet

Item ID: 31
1 Media file
2026/04/30
rwavaw_306.jpg
Properties
Title
Touchin' Velvet
Author
Laura Carstensen
Location
806 Monroe Ave, Rochester, NY 14607
Description
Photograph of a billboard with an advertisement for Black Velvet Whisky, comprised of a white blond woman lying on her stomach with a full glass next to her left hand. The billboard is dotted with splotches of egg or paint. On the far left-hand side of the billboard, a nondescript figure peers around the edge.
Name of Collection
Rochester Women Against Violence Against Women Archive
Folder Number
3
Folder Name
"Protests and Demonstrations"
Approximate Date of Materials in Folder
1979, 1980, 1982
General Description of Contents in Folder
Finished and draft RWAVAW flyers for events and consciousness-raising; public statements and fact sheets for rape trial; press releases, newspaper clippings, and information about boycott events. RWAVAW events: self-defense class, "Primal Fear" film screening. speakout, Take Back the Night march, March in Times Square. Photograph from protest.
Archived At
Visual Studies Workshop
Media
rwavaw_306.jpg
rwavaw_306.jpg
Metadata Information
Created
2026年4月30日 19:55
Last Modified
2026年7月9日 17:17
(Updated 69 days after creation)
Item ID
#31
Resource Class
Photograph
Resource Template
Photograph