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Mari Tepper: Laying it on the Line

By Ben Marks — As a teenager growing up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood during the mid-1960s, Mari Tepper might have been just another poster child for that colorful decade. Instead, Tepper designed many of the posters that defined it. “My father knew some of the…

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