Annotated Catalog of the Collection

Introduction

I started cataloging the Digger and Communication Company street sheets as soon as Michael Horowitz donated the first sets of Free City to us in 1972. I had a ruled accounting journal in the commune where I listed the Com/Co sheets as we got additions to the growing collection. When I put the Digger Archives online in 1993, my dream was to bring the catalog online as well. In 2015, the web provider disabled Microsoft's (now defunct) web management software so the interactive database went away. In the following year, I was able to resurrect this function by re-learning ASP and its tie-ins to ODBC, VBscript, and SQL. Most recently, with the help of Open AI and Anthropic's LLM software, I have enhanced the search and editing capabilities of this online catalog.

See Instructions and Abbreviations for information about using and interpreting the catalog entries. The interactive catalog is here. Future enhancement: a way for users to select favorite entries.

Page from the original ruled Record Book in which the first catalog entries were recorded, 1976:

Cover sheet for Free City Set #2, ca. November 1967 donated by Michael Horowitz in 1972.
 

The page of Kaliflower ads for the June 8, 1972 issue, one of which was the seed that led to the collection that is represented by the Catalog.