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 2 of 25)
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Cat. No. |
Title / BibCit / Abstract |
| C/N: CC-023 | Title/First Line: War Is Decor In My Cavern Cave.. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-023
BibCit: By McClure, Michael. 1967. Broadside. Letter size. CC. SOLA-xSS | SS-oT.
Abstract: Poem, handlettered (19 lines). "The wind whirs outside. I RAVE within my bone plate tedium. The wall flicks pictures of wounded meat"
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| C/N: CC-024 | Title/First Line: All Watched Over By | Machines Of Loving Grace. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-024
BibCit: By Brautigan, Richard. 1967. Broadside. Letter size. CC. SOLA-o? | SS-oMB.
Abstract: Poem. "I like to think, (it has to be!), of a cybernetic ecology, where we are free of our labors, and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal, brothers and sisters, and all watched over, by machines of loving grace."
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| C/N: CC-025a | Title/First Line: Nothing Ever Happens In Buena Vista Park. | Faggots & Dogs. |. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-025a
BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 2/8/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. cc(u.p.s.). SOLA-xSS | SS-oT.
Abstract: Poem. "...But Buena Vista Park is Middle Earth. Slow paths climb through endless glades & groves & elven meadows up with the glowing city like a mandala before you..." Describes actual and possible activities in the park. "a poem for John Fahey".
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| C/N: CC-026 | Title/First Line: A Moving Target Is Hard To Hit. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-026
BibCit: By Welch, Lew. 3/27/1967. Broadside. Letter size. CC(UPS). 2/c:Bl/Re. Text is printed in black; two illus in red.. SOLA-xSS | SS-oL.
Abstract: "When 200,000 folks...suddenly descend, as they will, on the haight-ashbury, the scene will be burnt down. .. Disperse. Gather into smaller tribes. .. The haight-ashbury is not where it's at--it's in your head and hands. Take it anywhere."
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| C/N: CC-027 | Title/First Line: Free Acid! | Saturday/Sunday |. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-027
BibCit: 4/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. the communication company (ups). YePa. SOLA-xSS | SS-oL.
Abstract: "M.G.M. cameramen, here to film RIOT ON HAIGHT STREET, reputed to be PASSING OUT FREE ACID to make the action more 'Authentic.' It's a bribe, but I'm an easy lay for free acid."
"this rumor gestetnered for what it's worth by the communication company.."
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| C/N: CC-028 | Title/First Line: Carte De Venue | & | Street Menu. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-028
BibCit: By diggers, the. 4/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. cc (ups). 1/c. Orange pa.. SOLA-o-BB0422 | xSS:SS-oL.
Abstract: Schedule of afternoon activities at Haight Street digger event, beginning with "1 P.M. Dance of the Sorcerer's Apprentices (brooms provided) Haight & Ashbury $0.00 2 P.M. Street Dance Music by The Dead Haight/Ashbury $0.00"
At bottom of sheet: "Note: Confrontations with the police don't seem to work out any better than meetings with the proper authorities. ..If The Man blows his cool again, why not add to his embarrassment by splitting?" Signed "C.A."
As a model of Digger events, this sheet embodies "create the condition you describe" and the condition is: AUTONOMY.
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| C/N: CC-029 | Title/First Line: Returning Returning Returning. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-029
BibCit: 4/16/1967. Broadside. Letter size. cc (u.p.s.). SOLA-xSS | SS-oL.
Abstract: "Your Brothers and Sisters are returning, Tribes of Love and Peace returning to nature for a, Human Be-In beginning on April 22, in the Malakoff Diggings State Park.. Free, flower ladies sacraments love, pine trees lakes children flowers.."
"Donate help and material at the Diggers office 1350 Waller St. S.F."
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| C/N: CC-030a | Title/First Line: Uncle Tim'$ | Children. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-030a
BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 4/16/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./4 pp.. cc (u.p.s.). SOLA-xSS | SS-oT.
Abstract: Four-page editorial takes a jaundiced look at the state of the Haight. "The hucksters will find it easier to denounce me than to correct themselves, & that, oh my brothers, is exactly what they'll do."
"printed possibly too late by the communication company"
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| C/N: CC-031 | Title/First Line: Gurus | Wizards | Teachers. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-031
BibCit: 4/17/1967. Broadside. Letter size. the communication company (u.p.s.). SOLA-oDW | SS-oL.
Abstract: "The kids are coming. The kids are here. MAKE YOURSELVES AVAILABLE TO THE KIDS. Seek them out. Talk to them. Go where they are and teach/love. Now - these thousands of kids - is your chance to create the world as you know it should be."
"The kids are on the streets, in the coffehouses, at The Trip Without a Ticket, The Psychedelic Shop, The Print Mint, Tracey's, The digger office, Haight/Ashbury everywhere. If you wait to get organized, they'll be gone. ..The future is now. Do it now."
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| C/N: CC-032A | Title/First Line: About Time We Started Doin' Our Own Livin' And Dyin' .. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-032A
BibCit: By X. 4/20/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. cc (ups). SOLA-oDW | SS-oT.
Abstract: "And so, six months ago you watched two guys bring a milk can full of turkey stew into the panhalde [sic] and start the diggers. two weeks later free food in the panhandle at four o'clock was advertised in the berkeley barb and it never missed a day.
"somebody asked: Why free food? and anyone answered: free clothes. ..we put down the merchants, the bullshitters, the hustlers and we sit around and it's all the same and there's nothing new under the sun and free food seems a long time gone.."
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| C/N: CC-032B | Title/First Line: Who Are These | Men? |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-032B
BibCit: By X. 4/20/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. cc (ups). SOLA-oDW | SS-oT.
Abstract: The title is the caption for a photo of demonstrators on City Hall steps (Black Panther Party?) Two arrows pointing to two individuals in the photograph presumably are the focus for the question.
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| C/N: CC-033 | Title/First Line: The News Before It Happens | A C.c. Flash | 5/6/67. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-033
BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 5/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. cc (ups). SOLA-oDW | SS-L.
Abstract: "Last January I asked the I Ching to comment on the subject: 'This summer & the revolution.' Five minutes ago, without knowing what I'd done .. Claude did exactly the same thing. .. Both times .. the Oracle gave the same reading."
Notes on the I Ching hexagrams received - #64 (Before Completion) leading to #1 (The Creative). "This is the reading that, last January, underlay the forming of the communication company.. Be advised."
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| C/N: CC-034 | Title/First Line: The Ministry Of Love (i, 8/5/67). |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-034
BibCit: 5/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. cc (u.p.s.). SOLA-xSS | SS-oL.
Abstract: Science-fiction like teletype instructions: "A.) All centers. Initiate condition aleph. Foreplay operations in effect, blue zones, cycling. Projective techniques authorized, discouraged. Street consolidation in progress. .."
"retyped and printed 5/8/67 by the communication company (u.p.s.) we're out of vynltronic stencils. be advised. having to retype all this nonsense is a drag."
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| C/N: CC-035 | Title/First Line: The Conquerors. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-035
BibCit: By Bryant, Melvin D.. 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. CC (UPS). 1/c black ink on green paper. SOLA-oDW | SS-oL.
Abstract: Poem. "Through my fingers run sand belonging to, the land -- through which I'm a marching. .. Before us our friends will tell of cities that have fell, without the use of gun or harming anyone, for love is our lord and master - we are growing strong.."
"A song by one of the more than 10,000 brothers now in U.S. prisons because of the drug laws---"
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| C/N: CC-036a | Title/First Line: Saturday -- April 29 -- Santa Fe, N. Mexico. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-036a
BibCit: 5/9/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. cc (ups). SOLA-o($) | SOLA-xSS | SS-oL.
Abstract: Report of a meeting between various hippie leaders and the Hopis to discuss a Be-In at the Grand Canyon. Eloquent statement of opposition to the idea proposed by Dick Alpert, et al. Emmett Grogan the presumed author of this report.
"Grogan talked from his youth and sought awareness -- He questioned the motives for a Be-In at Hopi Land. No, we have a community. We have many communities. ..-- Now we must follow the organic steps toward our own development as a tribe."
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| C/N: CC-037 | Title/First Line: I Know It Looks Like My Mind's Gone -- Rite? But No -- Still, |. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-037
BibCit: 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. ComCo (ups). SOLA-oDW | SS-oL.
Abstract: "I'LL RECAPITULATE. BUT FIRST -- BRO. AGAINST BRO., ALMOST, IN USA. (BLOODLESS FOR MOST PART) CIVIL WAR AS RITE RITE CLEANS UP FOR YEAR OR MORE -- I.E. R. REAGAN AS GOVERNOR HAS ALREADY APPOINTED BIG BUSINESS/MAN AS LABOR COMMISIONER.."
"..GET THE IDEA? --THEN, LATE '68 -- NOT SLOW, BUT FAST ADJUSTMENT AS NEW AWAKENING SPREADS THROUGHOUT OUR CULTURE -- MEANTIME, WATCHOUT, FISHES COMING TO THE SURFACE ARE TO BE CAUGHT.."
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| C/N: CC-038a | Title/First Line: Street News For | The Tenth Of May. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-038a
BibCit: 5/10/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./2 pp.. cc (ups). SOLA-xSS | SS-oT.
Abstract: Editorial on the merchants, the Thelins, Council for a Summer of Love, response to "Uncle Tim'$ Children", the diggers, money and greed. Subtitle: "Public Acts Are Public Knowledge | Love Is What You Do Not what you say."
"Money is energy. Energy must flow. If you hold on to it you get burned. .. Moneylust is sickness. It kills perception. Everyone is entitled to make a living, a good living, but everything more than a living is dying."
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| C/N: CC-039a | Title/First Line: Nation Scheduling Cover On The Hippies... |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-039a
BibCit: N.d., ca. 6/3/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. CC. SOLA-xSS | SS-oT.
Abstract: Cable heading (at top of page): "From "Time Magazine Hq, New York .. Jun 3,67 .. to San Francisco Bureau". Instructions on gathering material for "an in-depth analysis of this controversial, cloud-cuckooland miniculture."
"Will need substantial paragraph or two in cover tracing the history of the phenomenon.. Will want to talk about the hippie businessman, the people who feed off the hippies.. How much do they make -- any fortunes yet?"
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| C/N: CC-040 | Title/First Line: Kiva | Storytales Street Supernatural People Fables Speaking. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-040
BibCit: N.d., ca. 7/17/1967. Broadside. Letter size. CC. SOLA-xSS | SS-oT.
Abstract: Announces storytelling event: "Hole in a fence to a vacant lot across from the Blue Unicorn" with "razor doug .. brautigan .. peter's sam .. kirby .. coyote". "Monday, July 17, 5 p.m. and it goes on and on and on voice mirror"
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| C/N: CC-041a | Title/First Line: Jail Is A Drag. Getting Busted When You're High Is A Drag. .. |. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-041a
BibCit: 7/28/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. cc (ups). SOLA-xSS | SS-oT.
Abstract: Advice on street behavior, police brutality, possibility of race riots. "Please: if anything starts to happen, cut out. .. Please maintain your cool. Don't panic. Just split. .. be advised".
R.s., in psychedelic lettering: "So what | ain't your blood | hobbit junkie | flower fucker | your safe no one hates a balless acid head"
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| C/N: CC-042 | Title/First Line: Ode To John Garfield. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-042
BibCit: By Doyle, Kirby. 1967. Broadside. 8"x10 1/2". cc--member of UPS. SOLA-xxSS | SS-xB.
Abstract: "John Garfield is strong brother, John Garfield snarls tough like a tiger, ..never wore no necktie, ..built my first 12 years, ..bid me weep in the trees of my 1930's, ..sneers and punches Assholes around, .." Poem by: "Kirby Doyle for the DIGGERS".
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| C/N: CC-043 | Title/First Line: State Of The Soul Prepared For War. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-043
BibCit: 1967. Broadside. Letter size. c comp. SOLA-o($) | SOLA-xSS |SS-xB.
Abstract: "a document using the word LOVE=LIFE not using the word hate: but by implication incorporating negative energy as incisive scalpel wielded by brains hands hearts of loving brothers A FREE MANTRA".
"DO YOUR THING - TURN ON TO YOURSELF - THERE IS NOTHING TO WANT - YOU ARE THE LEADER - TURN ON TO YOURSELF - DO YOUR THING - THERE IS NOTHING TO WANT - YOU ARE THE LEADER - choose your weapons: flowers or guns-stand by them.."
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| C/N: CC-044 | Title/First Line: State Of The Soul Prepared For War. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-044
BibCit: 6/19/1967. Broadside. Letter size. Comm's co./ N.Y.. SOLA-xxSS | SS-xB.
Abstract: Reprint with minor variations of CC-043. Signed "(Love) The Diggers". [Internal and historical evidence suggests this is a reprint.]
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| C/N: CC-045 | Title/First Line: To Fuck With Love Phase I. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-045
BibCit: By Kandel, Lenore. 1967. Broadside. Letter size. CC (UPS). 1/c. SOLA-xxSS | SS-xB.
Abstract: "to fuck with love to change the temper of the air passing two strangers into one osmotic angel beyond the skin (grows in my hands like a tree)". Excerpt from _The Love Book_.
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| C/N: CC-046 | Title/First Line: This Is All Bullshit | Boring Bullshit. |
| Full record | Cat. No.: CC-046
BibCit: 3/31/1967. Broadside. Letter size. CC (UPS). SOLA-oDW | SS-xB.
Abstract: ".. IMATATIVE BULLSHIT | _WHY_?? DID YOU PAY | $3.50 FOR ALL THIS | BULLSHIT?? BORING | IMATATIVE BULLSHIT | REVOLT!!! | THE SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE, THE DIGGERS | THE COMMUNICATION COMPANY (UPS)"
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