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Cat. No.: CC-074 Full record BibCit: By [Anderson, Chester]. N.d., ca. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: communication company. Collation: Typewriter text; BlTy/WhPa.. Collection: SS-x(M) | SOLA-x(SS);o-BL/CA. Abstract: A poem in memory of Col. Edward White II, one of Chester Anderson's "very few personal heroes."
Cat. No.: CC-087 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company. Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss) | o-BL/CA. Abstract: Title is complete text.
Cat. No.: CC-091 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company. Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss) | o-BL/CA. Abstract: Title is complete text.
Cat. No.: CC-103 Full record BibCit: 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS) | o-BL/CA. Abstract: Lays out an ambitious practical program for the Haight-Ashbury as the neighborhood braced for the influx of "between 50 and 200,000" "youth of America [that] are on their ways to the Haight-Ashberry [sic]." The Diggers call for six “functioning rituals”: free food, productive farms, hostels, a garage to repair broken machines, tent-making from surplus rags, and to offer the Trip Without A Ticket as “total theatre" and "as a social art form.” What is striking is how concrete the proposal is—supplies, tools, talent, space, food, rent money, and coordination—while still framed in the Diggers’ language of theatre, ritual, and social transformation. The handwritten note indicates that the sheet was printed by the Communication Company.
Note: Signed The Diggers c/o John Huges 1333 Masonic. This is the first mention I have seen of the Trip Without A Ticket being in existence this early. On Chester Anderson's copy (BL/CA), he noted, "This I didn't write, but it explains a lot." On Chester's copy, he handwrote the date.
Cat. No.: CC-110a Full record BibCit: n.d. 1/28/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: A manifesto to "Drop Out. Be Free. No more psychedelic circle jerks." R.s.: cont'd.
Note: This is one of a packet that Chester Anderson annotated in his letter to his archivist, giving the dating. See "January 28, 1967" and CC-110av.
Cat. No.: CC-110av Full record BibCit: n.d. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company. Collection: o-BL/CA(variant of CC-110a?). Abstract: Essay on personal freedom. See Chester's "January 28, 1967" note.
Note: This is a variant of CC-110a, a copy of the item Chester Anderson sent his archivist. See "January 28, 1967."
Cat. No.: CC-110b Full record BibCit: n.d. 1/28/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Continued from other side.
Note: Chester Anderson gave the date in a letter to his archivist included in the packet of ComCo items published in January, 1967.
Cat. No.: CC-153 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS);o-BL/A. Abstract: All about turning people on.
Cat. No.: CC-261 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company. Collection: SOLA-o($) | o-BL/CA. Abstract: Title is complete text.
Note: Date is handwritten by Chester Anderson on copy sent to archivist. See "January 28, 1967" by Anderson, for notes on the Diggers.
Cat. No.: xCC-000 Full record BibCit: 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company. Collation: Tpw type/BlTy/WhPa. Collection: o-BL/CA.
Cat. No.: xCC-000 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Typewritten note to Chester's archivist; PiPa.. Collection: o-BL/CA. Abstract: Typewritten note to Chester's archivist explaining eight items he included in the January, 1967 packet of published materials.
Cat. No.: xCC-000 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 1/31/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: THE COMMUNICATION COMPANY. Collection: o-BL/CA. Abstract: Manifesto written by the Diggers, January, 1967.
Cat. No.: CC-148 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/1/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: A concise call to join the Diggers in their communal sharing, linking free food, mutual aid, and personal generosity as a form of “responsible self government” and participation in an “invisible government.” Framed as both spiritual and practical appeal, it invites anyone—for reasons political, religious, or playful—to contribute goods, talents, and presence at the daily 4 PM Panhandle gathering. "Be responsible Take part in the | invisible government"
Cat. No.: DP-013 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/1/1967. Booklet. 7 x 8.5 in. 8 p. Collation: printed on 2 8.5"x14" sheets of paper on both sides, folded in half to make 7" wide by 8.5" tall pages, the two sheets interfolded to make a publication that is 8 pages, illus. Collection: SOLA-o. Abstract: One of the foundational texts of the Diggers that fuses Digger theories of guerrilla theater, the Free Store, and street events into a vision of cultural and social liberation. It argues that modern capitalist society functions as a kind of managed asylum, numbing people through consumer spectacle, work discipline, media distance, and property relations. Against this enclosure, the text proposes “life-actors” who break the glass of passive spectatorship through direct action: theater that abolishes the boundary between stage and street, free stores that turn goods into shared social improvisation, and public rituals that reclaim urban space for collective joy, imagination, and human exchange.
These practices are not merely symbolic but prefigurative: they model a world beyond wages, prices, ownership, and bureaucratic control. The Free Store becomes a social form in which “human beings are the means of exchange,” while the “Birth of Haight / Funeral for $ Now” street event demonstrates how public ritual can transform a crowd into a temporary free community. The closing sections widen the frame further, linking Digger action to ecological critique, antiwar politics, and the technological obsolescence of wage labor, and calling for a society in which necessary work is automated, wealth is shared, and people are freed for uncommodified life with one another. The final imperative—“Give up jobs. Be with people. Defend against property.”—condenses the text’s program into a stark revolutionary ethic.
Note: There were three subsequent editions (all slightly different) published by the Diggers. Communication Company reprinted it. And a third edition appeared in the 1968 Digger Papers. In 2025, a critical edition was published for the Our Commons Are Free exhibition at Fort Mason in San Francisco. For scans of all the pages of this first edition, see: https://diggers.org/digger_sheets.htm#trip
Cat. No.: CC-128 Full record BibCit: 2/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus of totem pole at top of page.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Exhorts people to be calm and gentle in the face of harassment. Signed the "Psychedelic Rangers".
Cat. No.: CC-077 Full record BibCit: 2/7/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Communication Company (UPS). Collection: SS-x(M) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: A letter to the people serving on that committee about ideas to improve the neighborhood.
Cat. No.: cc-098a Full record BibCit: 2/7/1967. Broadsheet. Lt. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-o(dw). Abstract: A poem. R.s.:cont.
Cat. No.: CC-025a Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 2/8/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc(u.p.s.). Collection: 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".
Note: Backside reprints two sheets of music: "Nothing [etc.] Faggots + dawgs. Sometimes I play the recorder there."
Cat. No.: CC-129 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 2/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. with one hexagram.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Rumor of a bust to take place Feb. 8. Advice to get out of town and come back after seven days.
Cat. No.: CC-130a Full record BibCit: 2/9/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(?) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Essay by Chester Anderson. R.s.: cont'd.
Cat. No.: CC-142 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 2/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus with logo of S.F. Mime Troupe at top of page.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS);SOLA-o(SS). Abstract: Announces the show "The Condemned" put on by Mime Troupe. Tickets $2 and $3. Starting Feb. 9.
Cat. No.: CC-163 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 2/11/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-o(R) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Invitation to come to Los Angeles for a five-way simultaneous demonstration on 11 Feb 1967. Signed, "The Love Corps."
Cat. No.: CC-078 Full record BibCit: 2/16/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Communication Company. Collation: Title is hand-lettered. Two I Ching hexagrams at bottom of page.. Collection: SS-x(M) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: A news "flash" about the U.S. preparing concentration camps for "dangerous elements of the population."
Cat. No.: CC-182 Full record BibCit: 2/25/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: ?. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: Invisible Circus I Ching reading and announcement of activities taking place in different parts of town. Note: no Com/Co imprint.
Cat. No.: CC-137 Full record BibCit: By Diggers. n.d., ca. 3/1/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: THE D I G G E R S. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS);SOLA-o(KP, PW, $, 3 cop). Abstract: Diatribe against the commodification of hippie culture, attacking paid spectacles like the Love Circus for turning collective experience, style, and “trip” into cash. Contrasting the Diggers’ tradition of free events with commercial exploitation, it warns that buying a ticket means surrendering the spirit of freedom and sharing to the marketplace. "Whose trip are you paying for? How long will you tolerate people (straight or hip) transforming your trip into cash? Suckers buy what lovers get for free." Signed, The Diggers.
