The Battle fell together in 1979, when a light-hearted challenge between the  late Will Donicht (Mama's Home Cookin') and Judy Larson (The Sorry Muthas) resulted in a formal jugband face-off at Palmer's Bar, turning "annual" the following year when the New Riverside Cafe collective decided it needed a special event to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
From there, it continuned in series of ever-larger venues, finally landing at the Cabooze in 1997, attracting upwards of 500 jug fanatics. Click on the waffle iron icon below for more information about venues and winners.
The flyers are certainly not complete. We'd appreciate anyone with any of the missing years below sending scans we could post here.
Many of the posters-although generally shown in white here-were printed on a variety of pastel papers.
Thanks to Bob Fyfe for the additional material from his personal archives including the posters from the sixth annual and 18th Annual battles, as well as a copy of the article David Morton of the Jook Savages wrote concerning the history of Minnesota Jug Bands from his perspective