Annotated Catalog of The Digger Archives
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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| MEMO/To: Warren/From: Claude/Haight[/]Ashbury Memo # 1 May 23, 67.
Cat. No.: CC-095a Full record
BibCit: By Hayward, Claude. 5/23/1967. Manuscript. Lg. Collation: Tpw, xerox has 3 sheets, 3pp (incomplete). Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss).
Abstract: Claude Hayward, one of the co-founders of the Communication Company, writing to Warren Hinckle of Ramparts, offers in this memorandum of May 23, 1967 a hard-eyed assessment of conditions in the Haight as the Summer of Love approached. The memo gives a sharp, unsentimental picture of a scene already straining under the weight of its own publicity. Hayward surveys the working free institutions then in place—Peter Berg’s Free Store at 901 Cole, Roy Ballard’s Black Man’s Free Store, the faltering Free Food operation, free legal and medical aid, and various warehouse and community-center proposals—but his tone is wary rather than celebratory. Again and again, he contrasts the practical labor of feeding, clothing, housing, and treating people with the meetings, press conferences, and vague uplift of what he dismissively as the middle-class “Summer of Love” crowd. The memo is valuable for showing the counterculture not as a unified movement but as a patchwork of projects, factions, and uneasy alliances, some rooted in direct mutual aid, others in publicity and good intentions.
What most distinguishes the piece, however, is its sense of gathering crisis. Hayward insists that the real issue is not hippie theater or even logistical breakdown, but the prospect of racial violence, Black rebellion, and state repression converging in San Francisco and beyond. He describes a widening gulf between white hippies and Black communities, noting both small moments of contact and the deeper forces of resentment, fear, and political incomprehension. The memo predicts that hippies may soon find themselves caught between Black revolt and official repression, and links that prospect to Vietnam, domestic surveillance, and even the specter of internment under federal law. In that light, the free stores, free food projects, and rural farms appear not simply as countercultural experiments but as fragile, improvised preparations for social breakdown. The closing reference to Emmett Grogan’s advice to leave the city and prepare for life on the land gives the document the character of an early warning from within the underground itself, turning attention away from the spectacle of Haight-Ashbury and toward survival, decentralization, and the recognition that something much darker than a “summer of love” was already on the horizon.
Note: Claude and Chester had a complicated relationship with Warren Hinckle, the editor of Ramparts. This memo was written shortly after the Ramparts issue that exposed Emmett Grogan and the Diggers to the kind of publicity that Claude refers to here as "your foul publicity games." See Ringolevio for Grogan's view of Hinckle.
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| Free digger/party ... famous/folk heros ....
Cat. No.: cc-096 Full record
BibCit: n.d. ca 2/24/67. Broadside. Lt. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(bl) | SOLA-x(ss).
Abstract: Announcement for the Invisible Circus event.
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| diggersareniggers.
Cat. No.: cc-097 Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadside. Lt. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss).
Abstract: Title is complete text.
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| Cherokia Sutra.
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.
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| Busted Busted/Busted.
Cat. No.: cc-099a Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadsheet. 5"x11". San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Both sides illus.. Collection: SS-x(bl) | SOLA-x(ss).
Abstract: Directions to take names of people who have been busted to the diggers office at All Saints.
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| Diggers, a small group of extreme radicals founded/ ....
Cat. No.: cc-099b Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadsheet. 5"x11". San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Both sides illus.. Collection: SS-x(bl) | SOLA-x(ss).
Abstract: Quotes about the original diggers.
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| [illus. of marijuana plant & Com/Co's signature].
Cat. No.: CC-100 Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(bl) | SOLA-x(ss).
Abstract: Graphic is all on this sheet.
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| DIGGERS WELCOME.
Cat. No.: CC-101a Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Text is landscape oriented.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS) | SOLA-o($).
Abstract: Title is all this side (broad letters lengthwise).
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| Place this sign in your window.
Cat. No.: CC-101b Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS) | SOLA-o($).
Abstract: Instructions for the reverse side: "Place this sign in your window all through the summer whenever you have food clothing or shelter for any of the young seekers."
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| RECALL | THE | MAYOR! | Petition to follow. ....
Cat. No.: CC-102 Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS):SOLA-o(DW).
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| The diggers state simply.
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.
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| A communication company scoop flash ... | Mime Troupe busted.
Cat. No.: CC-104a Full record
BibCit: 3/23/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Printing is superimposed over CC-100.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
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| Additional stories in the news.
Cat. No.: CC-104b Full record
BibCit: 3/23/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Top of page has Mime Troupe logo. Illus w/ photo repros.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
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| Do you smoke pot?
Cat. No.: CC-105a Full record
BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. n.d.. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS):SOLA-o(DW)[side a only].
Abstract: A plan by Chester to put an ad in the Sunday Ramparts in support of marijuana with a form included on r.s. for signatures.
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| [petition in support of marijuana].
Cat. No.: CC-105b Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS):SOLA-o(DW)[side a only].
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| Press release Press release | The Council for the Summer of Love.
Cat. No.: CC-106 Full record
BibCit: n.d., ca. 4/5/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: 2/c, Illus in purple of photo of a group of armed Indians. Text in black.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Abstract: Announcing a press conference at 1757 Waller for April 5, 1967 to present "the unified, positive forces."
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| DIA | Digger Intelligence Agency | ....
Cat. No.: CC-107 Full record
BibCit: By Van Hoy, Scot. 3/18/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus w/ two hexagrams.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Abstract: Notice of the start of the digger early warning system (DEW) and warning of rumored busts-to-be at 848 Cole, a digger pad.
Note: Signed "Scot Van Hoy."
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| Order out of chaos.
Cat. No.: CC-108a Full record
BibCit: 3/25/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus w/ illuminated letter "I" at top of page.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Abstract: A letter from the Church of One advising people to "clean up! clean up! clean up!" to avoid harassment from the Health Department. R.s.: cont'd.
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| [cont'd from other side:] In 1959 the New York City Fire Department . . ..
Cat. No.: CC-108b Full record
BibCit: 3/25/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Abstract: Continued from other side.
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| Talking of Indians and Indians, while living in India, a |.
Cat. No.: CC-109 Full record
BibCit: 3/27/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. w/ illuminated letter "I" at top of page.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Abstract: Tells of a woman's vision that the Hippies are re-born Amerindians.
Note: Written by Michael Abrams.
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| Don't drop half out. | If you have to be cool, you're not free. |.
Cat. No.: CC-110a Full record
BibCit: n.d.. 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.
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| [cont'd from other side:] Don't drop half out....
Cat. No.: CC-110b Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Abstract: Continued from other side.
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| Note: Anyone who tries to make you riot is The Man. If you riot, he | can bust you. What a drag. |.
Cat. No.: CC-111 Full record
BibCit: 3/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. (see Notes).. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Note: Illus. w/ graphic at top of page, and reprint of "Stop. Hey what's that sound" by Stephen Stills.
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| A new type of newspaper for the Haight Ashbury free community |.
Cat. No.: CC-112 Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(?) | SOLA-x(SS).
Abstract: The newspaper will be "entirely composed of unexpensive advertisement." Gives rates, etc. Signed by Peter A. Roy, 1535 Haight Street.
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| [illus (not legible in this copy from BL) and photo-repro].
Cat. No.: CC-113 Full record
BibCit: n.d.. Broadside. 7"x10-1/4". San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL).
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