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Horowitz (Michael and Cynthia) Collection on Psychedelics
BANC MSS 2023/235
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Michael and Cynthia Horowitz collection on psychedelics
Creator:
Horowitz, Michael, 1938-
Creator:
Palmer, Cynthia
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2023/235
Physical Description:
3.5 linear feet
(2 cartons, 2 flat boxes, 1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1954-2006
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Some materials in this collection were purchased from Michael and Cynthia Horowitz in 2023. Some materials were a gift of
Michael and Cynthia Horowitz in 2023.
Collection is arranged into 5 series: Correspondence and other related documents; Harvard Psychedelic Research Project reports;
Moksha materials; Lysergic World materials; and photographs.
Michael Horowitz (b. 1938) is an historian, archivist, and writer. Raised in Brooklyn, he moved to San Francisco in 1967,
and then to Vancouver in 2006. He served as Timothy Leary's archivist from 1970 until Leary's death in 1996. This work involved
both preserving and disseminating Leary's works. Cynthia Palmer Horowitz (b. 1940) is a director and actress, known for The
Darwin Awards (2006) and AIDS Video Project (1987).
In 1970, Michael Horowitz merged his collection of psychedelic books and papers with those of Robert Barker and William Dailey
and created the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library in San Francisco--the largest library of psycho-active drug related material
in the world. Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Horowitz served as directors of the library. In 2003, The Ludlow Library became
part of the Ludlow Santo Domingo Library in Geneva, Switzerland.
Michael Horowitz is the co-author of the
High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs, and the
Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary. With Cynthia Palmer Horowitz, he is co-editor of
Moksha: Writing on Psychedelics and Visionary Experience, and
Sisters of the Extreme: Women's Writings on the Drug Experiece. Horowitz operates Flashback Books, an online bookstore specializing in printed materials on psycho-active drugs.
Michael and Cynthia Horowitz collection on psychedelics, BANC MSS 2023/235, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Processed by archivist Lara Michels at the folder/item level. Archivist incorporated notes provided to The Bancroft Library
by Michael and Cynthia Horowitz throughout the finding aid (sometimes verbatim). The archivist judged these notes to be key
to understanding Michael Horowitz's and Cynthia Horowitz's own appraisal of the materials in the collection.
The Michael and Cynthia Horowitz collection on psychedelics contains letters, manuscripts, inscribed offprints and photographs
of notable psychedelic scientists, researchers and counterculture figures associated with personal psychedelic drug experimentation.
See scope and contents notes throughout the finding aid for additional information.
Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction
of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
For additional information about the University of California, Berkeley Library's permissions policy please see: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/permissions-policies.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Horowitz, Michael, 1938- -- Archives
Palmer, Cynthia -- Archives
Aldrich, Michael R.
Ram Dass
Beck, Jerome, 1957-
Bigwood, Jeremy, 1948
Beresford, J.D. (John Davys), 1873-1947
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Cohen, Ira
Di Prima, Diane
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
George, Jean-Pierre
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Gips, Elizabeth
Golas, Thaddeus, 1924-
Halpern, John H.
Harris, Bob, 1946-
Hastings, Arthur (Arthur Claude), 1935-2014
Herman, Jan, 1942-
Hofmann, Anita, 1913-2007
Hofmann, Albert, 1906-2008
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
Huxley, Francis
Jenks, Shepherd Martin, 1926-2014
Kesey, Ken
Krassner, Paul
Leake, Chauncey Depew, 1896-1978
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
Lee, Martin A.
Lewis, David C. (David Christopher), 1956-
Zinberg, Norman E., 1922-1989
McKenna, Terence
Metzner, Ralph
Meyerzove, Leland S.
Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010
Osmond, Humphry
Ott, Jonathan
Baker, Jeannine Parvati, 1949-
Poland, Jefferson F.
P-Orridge, Genesis, 1950-2020
Robbins, Tom, 1932-
Riedlinger, Thomas J.
Rudahl, Sharon
Savage, Charles, 1918-2007
Schultes, Richard Evans
Shulgin, Alexander T. (Alexander Theodore)
Shulgin, Ann
Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898-1986
Wilson, Robert Anton, 1932-2007
International Conference on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
Harvard Psilocybin Project
Harvard University. Department of Psychology and Social Relations
Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Psychotropic drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Psychology, Experimental -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Psychological aspects