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-103 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 1/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS) | o-BL/CA. Abstract: The diggers state simply: their intent as a group is to establish and operate...
Note: Signed The Diggers c/o John Huges 1333 Masonic.
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: N.d., ca. 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.
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-twat-ed1 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. 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.
Cat. No.: CC-296 Full record BibCit: (Month of) 3/1/1967. Book. Letter size. 72 leaves (cover + 140 pp.). San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Manuscript Editions Number One | The ComCo. Collation: Issued as loose sheets in a clear plastic enclosure.. Abstract: Informed Sources is a novel by Willard Bain (not attributed in this first edition) that used a series of Associated Press–style dispatches to expose how language and news media function as instruments of social control, and to imagine their seizure and transformation by revolutionary forces. The book is framed as the internal information network of the Peripheral Underground Movement (PUM), a parody of and challenge to establishment wire services. Its “dispatches” follow multiple stories at once, including sensational, distorted crime items and countervailing bulletins, making visible how the media define reality by selecting, angling, and repeating information in ways that keep people “chained to capitalism and to consumer consciousness.”
Drawing on a "post-Burroughs" and "post-McLuhan" sensibility (as John Sinclair wrote in a review), Bain mimics the cadence, typography, and language of the mainstream press in order to show that whoever controls information flow also controls the limits of possible action. Within the novel’s world, the alternative service Informed Sources initially merely reproduces the “decadent form” of the establishment media, but it is ultimately infiltrated and overthrown by “Green Dreams,” a purer revolutionary current that represents the conscious transformation rather than the continuation of existing media forms.
Note: This is the first edition, with no indication of authorship on the cover nor the imprint page. A second edition with the author's name (Willard Bain) and date of 9/67 appeared, also by The Communication Company, with the notation, "Printed in and around San Francisco ..." In 1969, Doubleday published the third edition in a trade paperback. See John Sinclair's review in: Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969.
Cat. No.: CC-009 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 3/2/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc.u.p.s. Collection: SOLA-xSS|SS-oL. Abstract: Photo reprint of news clip, "FBI's List of 'Radical Subversives'" tells of plans to round up radicals during a national disaster. ComCo editorial elaborates the implications for "all of us who smoke a little pot & dig a little peace". I Ching reading. "Because dope is political, & don't you forget it. Anything that criticizes the Establishment & its asinine war & power games is political -- subversive! -- and taking dope is an act of criticism."
Note: Dating comes from an SF Examiner article from March 2, 1967, reporting on the meeting of the California Civil Defense and Disaster Directors Association.
Cat. No.: CC-079 Full record BibCit: 3/2-3/67 3/2/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: communication company member of the .... Collection: SS-x(M) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: A "flash" about the upcoming First Annual Love Circus which the diggers are threatening to picket.
Cat. No.: CC-138 Full record BibCit: 3/3/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: With phone numbers to call to help out.
Cat. No.: CC-132a Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/5/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. with 3 hexagrams.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Announces a REAL rock dance directed by Chester Anderson at California Hall for 3/5/67, $2.50. R.s.: cont'd.
Note: From an Ebay auction description: This is a super rare original handbill for "Bedrock One" in a rare variant color (deep gold) - most of the handbills for this event are light green. This was supposed to have been a Digger’s event, however, The Diggers disavowed any connection and as a result many copies of the handbill have text overprinted on the back stating it is not a Digger’s event. This handbill is blank on the back.
Bedrock One which took place on March 5th, 1967 at California Hall in San Francisco, California featured music by Steve Miller Blues Blues Band, Dino Valenti; ceremonies from The Radha Krishna Temple; poetry by Richard Brautigan and The Caped Crusaders; experimental theater, lights, and happenings by the S.F. Mime Troupe. Hosted by Warren Hinkle III, editor of Ramparts Magazine. The artwork is by fabled Underground (Zap and other comix) Comic artist, Robert Crumb - he hardly ever did artwork for concerts so this is a rare R. Crumb piece. 8 1/2 x 11 inches and in Near Mint condition.
