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.
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Cat. No.: CC-x01 Full record BibCit: 1/17/1967. Sales Receipt. Abstract: 1:1/1. Customer copy of sales receipt for Gestetner Duplicator Model 366 for $972 (with $300 down payment.) Sold to: Anderson - Hayward, 301 Broadway, SF, CA. Delivery address: 406 Duboce, SF. Dated: 1-17-67.
Cat. No.: CC-063a Full record BibCit: 1/24/1967. Broadsheet. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC. Collection: SOLA-o(T) | SS-o(T). Abstract: "The Haight-Ashbury community is only one active manifestation of a world-wide youth revolution that has been infused with a revelation of the spiritual unity of all men and women of all races here and everywhere.."
Statement by a "delegation from H.I.P." to Chief of Police Cahill suggesting "possible approaches for improved relations between the youthful new community and the older one." Lists achievements of the community. Threatens a lawsuit over harassment.
Cat. No.: CC-063b Full record BibCit: 1/24/1967. Broadsheet. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC. Collection: SOLA-o(T) | SS-o(T).
Cat. No.: CC-073 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company. Collation: Text is centered, vertically and horizontally (roughly.). Collection: SOLA-o(RS) | SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(M) | o-BL/CA. Abstract: Poem, nine lines. Earliest publication of phrase "Do your thing."
Note: See "January 28, 1967" by Chester Anderson re dating.
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: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(M) | o-BL/CA. Abstract: A poem in memory of Col. Edward White II, one of Chester Anderson's "very few personal heroes."
Note: See "January 28, 1967" by Chester Anderson.
On CC-074, Chester hand wrote: "All the 1/28/67 material - we distributed 500 copies of each sheet - comprises A Poem of Heroes, dedicated to Col. White, one of my very few personal heroes, who died the day before."
Cat. No.: CC-074v 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: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(M) | o-BL/CA. Abstract: A poem in memory of Col. Edward White II, one of Chester Anderson's "very few personal heroes."
Note: This variant has Chester Anderson's note: "All the 1/28/67 material - we distributed 500 copies of each sheet - comprises A Poem of Heroes, dedicated to Col. White, one of my very few personal heroes, who died the day before."
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: SOLA-xx(SS) | SS-x(M) | 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: SOLA-xx(SS) | SS-x(M) | 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: SOLA-o | 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: SOLA-o | 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.: CC-261v 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: This is the copy Chester Anderson sent his archivist. The word "digger" in the text of the broadside has an asterisk. The handwritten note:
*the diggers are a non-organization of radical hippies. They believe & practice freedom — which includes feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, befriending the stranger, &c &c, all for free, that being their thing. I'll send you an essay on the conservative & radical factions that explains it all. The diggers have Dropped Out. Abandoned the establishment & especially its values. Very radical, very active, very political. I'm one.
Cat. No.: CC-272 Full record BibCit: 1/28/1967. Broadside. Lt.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the communication company. Collation: Tpw type/BlTy/WhPa. Collection: SOLA-o. Abstract: A street manifesto that possibly was written by Chester Anderson.
Cat. No.: CC-x06 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 1/28/1967. Manuscript. Letter size. San Francisco. 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.: CC-x04 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 1/30/1967. Manuscript. Abstract: Chester typed this on the back of CC-221a ("The Pow Wow"). Here, the verso is blank except for this note:
we were going to start a daily newspaper, & this was to be in the first issue, but we ran out of ink. By the time we had more ink, we realized that, both being new to the scene, we didn't have the reportorial staff & community cooperation needed for a daily paper, so we're still going to start one someday. There were more than 25,000 hippies present, turning on & happy at the Human Be-In. The poster for the Be-In, included herewith, is typical Haight/Ashbury poster art. Now very famous, all these hippie posters.
(The mystery sky diver, it turns out, was Owsley Stanley, San Francisco's major manufacturer of black market acid.)
Cat. No.: CC-368a 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-368b 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: Chester Anderson's handwritten note: "I didn't write this/these, either." This was one of the sheets included in the January 1967 packet that Chester sent to his archivist in Key West, Florida.
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-129 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/3/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. with one hexagram.. Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(BL) | BL/CA-o(1:2/6). Abstract: Rumor of a bust to take place Feb. 8. Advice to get out of town and come back after seven days. See also CC-369 "Second Notice." Dating from Chester Anderson's hdw. note at BL/CA.
