Annotated Catalog of Digger Archives
Including Ephemera, Broadsides, Posters, Street Sheets, Collections, etc. for the
San Francisco Diggers, Communication Company, Free City Collective,
Kaliflower Intercommunal Network, Free Print Shop, Planetedge Manifestation,
Earth/Life Defense Commune, &c.
Gentle reader, note: there are several thousand individual items in
the collection that makes up the Digger Archives. Currently, I have only
annotated a few hundred as they appear in this database. Time marches on!
Category: Current search string = EMPTY [Category "" Records Displayed] (606 records — Page 12 of 25)
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Title / BibCit / Abstract |
| C/N: CC-252 | Title/First Line: Passive Emotions. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-252
BibCit: 4/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. commujication company (UPS). SOLA-x(unk).
Abstract: Nine-line poem.
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| C/N: CC-253 | Title/First Line: How To Make Your Own DMT. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-253
BibCit: 4/17/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. the communication company (u.p.s.) be advised. 4 pages (2 sheets?). SOLA-x(unk).
Abstract: Detailed chemistry instructions for making DMT. First page is a cover sheet with block letters "DMT" in various patterns. Drawing of left hand points to the title. Imprint at bottom of first page.
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| C/N: CC-254 | Title/First Line: Witnesses To The Bust On Haight St. On Sunday April 23. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-254
BibCit: 1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. Comm Comp. This page has landscape orientation.. SOLA-x(unk).
Abstract: Plea for witnesses to a bust on Haight Street on April 23, to "help your brothers beat the rap" and to stop police harassment. Witnesses are asked to clal Art Wells, an attorney, at 849-4010. "No More Paranoia." Lettering is hand drawn. Drawing of eyeball at top of page below title.
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| C/N: CC-255 | Title/First Line: Free Legal Services. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-255
BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/23/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. Comm Comp. This page has normal (letter) orientation.. SOLA-x(unk).
Abstract: Announces "Free Lawyers (your cases handled free)" with several phone numbers listed, both daytime and nights. Address listed: 901 Cole Street, Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:00 pm. Imprint is lower right corner on this side of B.S. Lettering is hand drawn, with several reverse swastikas as background.
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| C/N: CC-256 | Title/First Line: Free Free Free Free | Young Digger Poetry Reading. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-256
BibCit: 4/27/1967. Broadside. Letter size. Communication Co.. SOLA-x(unk).
Abstract: Announcement for a Digger poetry reading featuring Lenore Kandel, Richard Brautigan, William Fritsch, at "Deno and Carlo, 728 Vallejo Street." "Young Digger Poets Bring Your Poems and read them." Imprint is lower right corner. All lettering is hand drawn, mostly in script. Drawing in middle of sheet appears to be similar to William Blake illustrations.
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| C/N: CC-257 | Title/First Line: Straight Theater School of Performing Arts Workshops and Rehearsals. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-257
BibCit: 5/1/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. COMMUNICATION COMPANY (hdw). SOLA-x(unk).
Abstract: Listing of activities at the Straight Theater's Drama Studio, Dance Studio, and Studio III for May to May 7, 1967. Lists names of workshop coordinators, including Kevin, Oscar Criner, Olaf Odegaard, Joe Gostanian, Ama, John Birrell, Caitlin Huggins, Peter Swain, Peggy Mundt, Molly Huggins, Jane Lapiner, and Pat Omirers. Imprint is hand lettered at bottom of first page. Address of Straight Theater: 1748 Haight Street, 387-5074.
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| C/N: CC-258 | Title/First Line: Today!! In the Panhandle - 4 P.M. May Day. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-258
BibCit: 1967. Broadside. Legal size. The Communication Company (UPS). SOLA-x(unk).
Abstract: Announces a free May Day concert in the Panhandle featuring the Steve Miller Blues Band.
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| C/N: CC-259 | Title/First Line: The Question: Is a portrayal of the Haight-Ashbury as a lurid, filthy, crime-infested slum good for business or anything except freeways and redevelopment? |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-259
BibCit: 5/4/1967. Broadside. Letter size. None, presumably ComCo. SOLA-x(unk).
Abstract: A letter from the owner of David L. Rothkop, of the I-Thou Coffe House, 1736 Haight Street, calling for a coming together of the diverse elements among the Haight merchants, including the "old guard" Merchants Association and the new hip merchants. Criticizes the hippies for their naïve belief in "drugs-as-panacea" as well as the reactionary elements of the Merchants Association who blocked Moe's Bookstore's request for a second-hand permit.
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| C/N: CC-260 | Title/First Line: Let's take an old timey walk in the park. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-260
BibCit: 4/2/1967. Broadside. Letter size. "gestetnered with joyous abandon by the communication company, ups, let's take a walk in our park". SOLA-o(MPD).
Abstract:
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| C/N: CC-261 | Title/First Line: if you're not a digger | you're property. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-261
BibCit: N.d., ca. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. the communication company. SOLA-o($) | o-BL/CA.
Abstract: Title is complete text.
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| C/N: CC-262 | Title/First Line: The Hessians are coming. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-262
BibCit: 1967. Broadside. Letter size. ComCo UPS. SOLA-o($).
Abstract: Psychedelic lettering continues: "The Interpol forcast from our limey | printed by the Communication Company UPS".
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| C/N: CC-263 | Title/First Line: Tomorrow for real. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-263
BibCit: 5/13/1967. Broadside. Letter size. ComCo. SOLA-o($).
Abstract: Announces a free event at Alamo Park with "R&B - Rock - Blues | Soul" Saturday, May 13. "Bring yourself to it / Let's do it forever".
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| C/N: CC-264 | Title/First Line: Live! See! Action fotos of obscenity in motion. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-264
BibCit: N.d. internal evid. Broadsheet. Letter size. No ComCo designation. SOLA-o($).
Abstract: Most likely produced by Chester et al. at the Invisible Circus. Text continues: "Live audience bored to tears as Peter Berg takes his clothes off: (foto below … of Obscenity In Motion conference in the Fellowship Room / Live action fotos / Fotos by Edmund Shea".
R.s.: "See Carol Doda / As a perplexed minister was decoyed by a flutter of FUCK ENTROPY posters, Peter Berg quickly undressed. The audience was unmoved. … The Invisible Nudist Circus".
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| C/N: CC-265 | Title/First Line: Haight/Ashbury Newsletter 8/19/67: Hippy Siamese Twins Split. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-265
BibCit: 8/19/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 3 shts; 6 pgs. includes ComCo/UPS ("in exile") from Corte Madera, CA and Hollywood, FL. SOLA-o(LH).
Abstract: Chester Anderson's description of the end of Communication Company in the Haight Ashbury and his subsequent plans.
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| C/N: CC-266 | Title/First Line: Sunday, April 2, 1:00 p.m. / Haight Street is ours to play on till we feel it beautiful to stop.. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-266
BibCit: 4/2/1967. Broadside. Letter size. ComCo/UPS. Multi-color design on white paper. Signed "The Diggers". SOLA-o(PW).
Abstract: Declaration by The Diggers of the liberation of Haight Street for Easter Sunday.
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| C/N: CC-267 | Title/First Line: Party / Turk Park / this afternoon. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-267
BibCit: 1967. Broadside. Letter size. ComCo. o-EN($).
Abstract: Announces a party at the public park located at Turk and Laguna streets. "Free / Come and Do Your Thing".
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| C/N: CC-268 | Title/First Line: What would be | the result if | all the little little | kids used their | water pistols|. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-268
BibCit: 1/10/1967. Broadside. Legal size. n/a (presumably com/co). Hdw. lettering; B/W. o-BL/CA.
Abstract:
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| C/N: CC-269 | Title/First Line: trips. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-269
BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 1/13/1967. Broadside. Legal size. The Communication! Company. Tpw text over watermark of drawing (?).. o-BL/CA.
Abstract: Various hikes, and locales in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California recommended for taking trips (both the literal and psychedelic variety.)
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| C/N: DP-001 | Title/First Line: Where is PUBLIC at? Where are PUBLIC streets at? Therefore an erection in the Panhandle.. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-001
BibCit: 1966. Broadside. Letter size. THE D I G G E R S. SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(PB).
Abstract: This text is a biting, surreal critique of the collapse of “public” life in a privatized society. Through ironic repetition, it exposes how spaces meant for communal use—streets, schools, parks—have become instruments of surveillance, conditioning, and control. The Diggers respond with parody and provocation, proposing a literal and symbolic “erection” of freedom: a public, ecstatic, collective space where love and liberation replace property and repression. It transforms civic frustration into theatrical revolt—an anarchic vision of reclaiming the commons.
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| C/N: DP-002 | Title/First Line: Public Nonsense Nuisance Public Essence Newsense Public News. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-002
BibCit: 10/31/1966. Broadside. Letter size. SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(PB).
Abstract: This sheet turns public space into a site of satire and performance, mocking the passive “public” created by media, traffic, and official information. By proposing the “Digger Square” and the “Intersection Game,” it invites people to stop being spectators and instead reframe the street through play, movement, and collective action. The piece treats the city not as a space to be managed and consumed, but as a stage where perception itself can be disrupted and remade. The first Digger street theater (Halloween, 1966).
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| C/N: DP-003 | Title/First Line: Let Me Live In A World Pure. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-003
BibCit: 1966. Broadside. Letter size. THE D I G G E R S. SOLA-o.
Abstract: This poetic manifesto mourns the spiritual decay of 1960s America while demanding renewal through authentic, liberated living. It calls out cultural figures—from Dylan to Ginsberg—for clinging to fame, ideology, or illusion rather than embracing communal purity and love. The piece condemns commercialism and false revolution, urging the destruction of social masks and the rebirth of genuine human connection. In its final invocation, the Diggers emerge as witnesses to a generation haunted by lost prophets and unfulfilled dreams.
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| C/N: DP-004 | Title/First Line: A-Political Or, Criminal Or Victim Or. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-004
BibCit: 9/30/1966. Broadside. Letter size. THE D I G G E R S. SOLA-o.
Abstract: Uses irony to argue that American “freedom” is largely a system of control. It presents citizenship as a series of regulated choices—schooling, military service, wage labor, limited political options, and consumer dependence—enforced by police and law in the name of protection. The piece also attacks journalists, merchants, and other intermediaries for collaborating with authority while claiming to represent the public. Overall, it exposes the gap between official freedom and lived repression.
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| C/N: DP-005 | Title/First Line: Cool Cranberry Horsehaired Mouth.... |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-005
BibCit: 1966. Broadside. Letter size. THE D I G G E R S. SOLA-o.
Abstract: A deliberately chaotic collage of surreal images, countercultural slang, sexual anxiety, economic critique, and revolutionary longing. Beneath its stream-of-consciousness absurdity runs a serious tension: the speaker feels trapped between psychic dislocation, deadening work, consumer society, and the distant promise of “revolution.” Its fractured style is itself the point: it enacts the breakdown of stable meaning in a society experienced as both grotesque and coercive.
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| C/N: DP-006 | Title/First Line: Time To Forget. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-006
BibCit: Broadside. Letter size. The D I G G E R S. SOLA-o.
Abstract: Attacks the politics of withdrawal and fashionable “hip” disengagement. Repeating the command “FORGET,” it mocks the idea that beauty, music, style, and private consciousness can substitute for confronting war, racism, state repression, labor struggle, and corporate hypocrisy. Its target is the commercialization of counterculture and a dropout sensibility that turns inward while leaving the larger system intact.
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| C/N: DP-007 | Title/First Line: Take a Cop to Dinner. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-007
BibCit: n.d. ca. 10/1/1966. Broadside. Letter size. The D I G G E R S. SOLA-o.
Abstract: Satirizes the many ways society sustains police power. Its refrain, “take a cop to dinner,” becomes a metaphor for the favors, privileges, exemptions, and public myths through which criminals, businesses, churches, government agencies, merchants, and even hip institutions all help legitimize and strengthen the police. Obscene and mocking in tone, the piece argues that police authority is socially fed, not merely legally granted.
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