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 13 of 25)
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Cat. No. |
Title / BibCit / Abstract |
| C/N: DP-008 | Title/First Line: And Now I Live. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-008
BibCit: 1966. Broadside. Letter size. The D I G G E R S.
Abstract: This piece merges tragedy and existential despair to expose how institutional power—“The Estate”—defines life and death in modern civilization. Beginning with Elaine Esposito’s lifelong coma as metaphor, it portrays society itself as an unconscious body sustained by authoritarian systems and consumer conditioning. Through a litany of victims, the text equates political violence and everyday passivity as symptoms of systemic control. The Diggers’ closing declaration is both lament and warning: under “The Estate,” consciousness itself has become captivity.
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| C/N: DP-19661021] | Title/First Line: Delving the Diggers. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: DP-19661021]
BibCit: By George Metevsky [pseud.]. 10/21/1966. Article.
Abstract: “Delving the Diggers,” published in The Berkeley Barb on October 21, 1966, appears under the byline “George Metevsky,” a pseudonym used by Diggers Emmett Grogan and Billy Murphy to channel insider reportage into the underground press while preserving the group’s anonymity and prankster mystique. The article offers a vivid, first-person account of the Diggers’ daily free food distribution in the Panhandle, presenting their communal meal as both radical generosity and street theater in which “food as medium” becomes a critique of property, scarcity, and commodification. Against a backdrop of music, playful absurdity, and casual exchanges with police and passersby, Metevsky describes an improvised chant and percussion piece directed at the “Evil Auto,” explicitly linking cars to noise, accidents, war, pollution, and monopoly power. This early, performative attack on the automobile foreshadows the Diggers’ emerging deep ecological sensibility, in which their refusal of consumer capitalism broadened into an incipient critique of industrial modernity and its environmental costs. Read in this light, the piece functions as both self-mythologizing manifesto and field report, documenting the Diggers’ fusion of art, activism, and ecological imagination in the early Haight-Ashbury counterculture.
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| C/N: FC-68-aug | Title/First Line: The Digger Papers | free. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FC-68-aug
BibCit: 1968. Pamphlet. Letter size. 24 pp..
Abstract: The anthology of digger articles and street sheets compiled by Emmett Grogan and published by The Realist. This is the "digger" or "free" edition. The cover is a full-page graphic of the "running man" symbol (Native American swastika). Other than the cover, all pages are the same as the Realist edition.
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| C/N: FPS-001 | Title/First Line: Raffle for Dirty Dick's Chopper. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-001
BibCit: 8/1/1968. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-002 | Title/First Line: The Sutter St. Commune...Free Print Shop. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-002
BibCit: 8/1/1968. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-003 | Title/First Line: Project 3. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-003
BibCit: fall 1968. Broadside. o-FPS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-004 | Title/First Line: Wanted...for a first film. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-004
BibCit: fall 1968. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-005 | Title/First Line: Erection Day '68. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-005
BibCit: ca. 11/5/1968 11/5/1968. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-006 | Title/First Line: The Fast Steppers Assn. Host a Mammoth Soul Shindig. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-006
BibCit: 12/1/1968. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-007 | Title/First Line: Black New Years. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-007
BibCit: 12/1/1968. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-008 | Title/First Line: Moon Face (frowning). |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-008
BibCit: winter 1968-69. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-009 | Title/First Line: Sun Face (smiling). |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-009
BibCit: winter 1968-69. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-010 | Title/First Line: Community Strike Support Coalition. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-010
BibCit: winter 1968-69. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-011 | Title/First Line: Punch & Judy Free Forever (lst edition). |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-011
BibCit: winter 1968-69. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-012 | Title/First Line: "Chaos" (design). |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-012
BibCit: winter 1968-69. Broadside. o-FPS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-013 | Title/First Line: "Mandala" (design). |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-013
BibCit: winter 1968-69. Broadside. o-FPS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-014 | Title/First Line: O Diggers O.... |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-014
BibCit: ca. 1/16/1969 1/16/1969. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-015 | Title/First Line: Environmental School. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-015
BibCit: ca. 2/1969 2/1/1969. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-016 | Title/First Line: Messiah's World Crusade...Test Case. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-016
BibCit: ca. 2/8/1969 2/8/1969. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-017 | Title/First Line: Break/Fast Vernal Equinox. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-017
BibCit: 3/1969(?). Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-018 | Title/First Line: The Good News. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-018
BibCit: ca. 3/1969 3/1/1969. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-019 | Title/First Line: First Cause...Here & Now. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-019
BibCit: ca. 3/1969 3/1/1969. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-020 | Title/First Line: The Living Theater. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-020
BibCit: ca. 3/4/1969 3/4/1969. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-021 | Title/First Line: Fifteen Years in Prison—For This!. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-021
BibCit: ca. 3/15/1969(?) 3/15/1969. Broadside. o-FPS.
Abstract:
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| C/N: FPS-022 | Title/First Line: Kirtan! (small size). |
| Full record | Cat. No.: FPS-022
BibCit: ca. 3/21/1969 3/21/1969. Broadside. o-FPS | o-CHS.
Abstract:
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