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!
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Cat. No.: CC-023 Full record BibCit: By McClure, Michael. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC. Collection: 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"
Cat. No.: CC-024 Full record BibCit: By Brautigan, Richard. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC. Collection: SOLA-o | SS-oMB. Abstract: Brautigan’s poem imagined a world in which computers might live in harmony with humanity, a vision far removed from the suspicion with which many in the New Left regarded them. It became an iconic celebration of the hope that computers could serve freedom rather than domination. In that sense, it stands as an early herald of the underground personal computer revolution to come. At least one group of computer hobbyists later adopted the poem’s title as the name of their enterprise.
Note: Title and imprint are handlettered, all else typewritten. Paper used for printout shows faintly: "LOUDSPEAKER CURRENT" and other faint electronic schematics. This is one of the items distributed at the Invisible Circus.
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-026 Full record BibCit: By Welch, Lew. 3/27/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC(UPS). Collation: 2/c:Bl/Re. Text is printed in black; two illus in red.. Collection: 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."
Note: Illuminated letter in red at top of page. Title begins with quote marks. Essay dated separately: 3/29/67.
Cat. No.: CC-027 Full record BibCit: 4/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company (ups). Collation: YePa. Collection: 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."
Note: "this rumor gestetnered for what it's worth by the communication company.."
Cat. No.: CC-028 Full record BibCit: By diggers, the. 4/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collation: 1/c. Orange pa.. Collection: 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.
Note: The editorial note is by Chester Anderson (C.A.)
Cat. No.: CC-029 Full record BibCit: 4/16/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: 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."
Note: Appended handlettered I Ching hexagrams at bottom of page.
Cat. No.: CC-030a Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 4/16/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./4 pp.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: 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"
Note: Handlettered I Ching hexagram (18.) at bottom of page 4: "Work on What Has Been Spoiled [decay]"
Cat. No.: CC-031 Full record BibCit: 4/17/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company (u.p.s.). Collection: 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."
Note: Text is handlettered, title is block lettering. I Ching hexagram at top of page.
Cat. No.: CC-032A Full record BibCit: By X. 4/20/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: 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.."
Note: Sarcastic comment on the free scene. R.s. has photo of demonstrators on City Hall steps: "Who Are These Men?"
Cat. No.: CC-032B Full record BibCit: By X. 4/20/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: 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.
Cat. No.: CC-033 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 5/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: 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."
Note: "printed in awe by the communication (ups) be ye therefore joyful be advised" Hexagram diagrams are typewritten.
Cat. No.: CC-034 Full record BibCit: 5/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: 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."
Cat. No.: CC-035 Full record BibCit: By Bryant, Melvin D.. 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC (UPS). Collation: 1/c black ink on green paper. Collection: 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---"
Note: Imprint, note on origin - typewritten. Text - handlettered. Title in block letters.
Cat. No.: CC-036a Full record BibCit: 5/9/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: 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."
Note: Bottom of r.s. has feathered 'running man' symbol (see _Ringolevio_, p. 380). Anon: by Emmett Grogan.
Cat. No.: CC-037 Full record BibCit: 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: ComCo (ups). Collection: 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.."
Note: Grogan in _Ringolevio_ (p. 311) says this was a letter from Cassady (in Mexico) to Ginsberg, reprinted by ComCo.
Cat. No.: CC-038a Full record BibCit: 5/10/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./2 pp.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: 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."
Cat. No.: CC-039a Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 6/3/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC. Collection: 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?"
Note: Certain lines underlined, sections outlined, by ComCo.
Cat. No.: CC-040 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 7/17/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC. Collection: 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"
Note: Typewritten. Handlettered Southwest Indian-design lines at top and bottom.
Cat. No.: CC-041a Full record BibCit: 7/28/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: 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"
Note: Two handlettered I Ching hexagrams (# 38 - Opposition, # 11 - Peace).
Cat. No.: CC-042 Full record BibCit: By Doyle, Kirby. Broadside. 8"x10 1/2". San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc--member of UPS. Collection: 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".
Cat. No.: CC-043 Full record BibCit: Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: c comp. Collection: 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.."
Note: Title's letters double spaced. Manifesto in 3 columns. "proudly printed by the communication comp." See Ringolevio, p. 404, for genesis of this poem by Bill Fritsch (Tumble).
Cat. No.: CC-044 Full record BibCit: 6/19/1967. Broadside. Letter size. New York: Communications co.. Imprint: Comm's co./ N.Y.. Collection: 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.]
Cat. No.: CC-045 Full record BibCit: By Kandel, Lenore. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC (UPS). Collation: 1/c. Collection: 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_.
Cat. No.: CC-046 Full record BibCit: 3/31/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC (UPS). Collection: 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)"
