Guide to the Whole Earth Catalog Records, 1969-1986 (bulk 1974-1980)
Guide to the Whole Earth Catalog Records, 1969-1986 (bulk 1974-1980)
Collection number: M1045
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- Date Completed:
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14 Dec 1938 | Born, Rockford, Illinois, USA. |
1954-56 | Phillips Exeter Academy. |
1960 | Graduated in Biology, Stanford University. |
1960-62 | Active duty, U.S. Army officer. Qualified Airborne and took up skydiving. Taught basic infantry training and worked as photojournalist out of the Pentagon. |
1962-68 | Created sundry multi-media performances ("America Needs Indians," "War:God") and public events ("Trips Festival," "Whatever It Is,""World War IV"), and collaborated on museum exhibits ("Astronomia," "We Are All 1"). |
1966 | Conceived and sold buttons which read, "Why Haven't We Seen A Photograph of the Whole Earth Yet?" Legend has it that this accelerated NASA's making good color photos of Earth from distant space during the Apollo program and that the ecology movement took shape in 1968-9 partially as a result of those photos. |
1968-72 | Founded, edited, and published the original Whole Earth Catalog. |
1972 | Received National Book Award for The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Random House. 1.5 million copies sold. (All editions sales were over 2.5 million; a Millennium Whole Earth Catalog came out in 1994, with a foreword by me.) |
1972 | Founded Point Foundation, which gave away $1 million in three years to assorted effective individuals. Point is the non-profit foundation which runs all the Whole Earth activities. (It no longer has money to give away, alas.) |
1973 | Conceived and organized "The New Games Tournament," which resulted in two books, New Games and More New Games, by Andrew Fluegelman. |
1974 | Authored Two Cybernetic Frontiers, Random House---on Gregory Bateson and cutting-edge computer science. It had the first use of the term "personal computer" in print and was the first book to report on computer hackers. |
1974 | Edited and published the Whole Earth Epilog, Penguin. |
1974-85 | Founded, edited, and published CoEvolution Quarterly. (It continues as Whole Earth Magazine.) |
1976 | Edited Space Colonies and co-edited Soft Tech, Penguin. |
1977-79 | Advisor to Governor of California Edmund G. Brown, Jr. |
1980-81 | Edited and published The Next Whole Earth Catalog, Random House. |
1982-83 | Founded Uncommon Courtesy: School of Compassionate Skills, which gave sessions on such subjects as "Creative Philanthropy," "Business as Service," "Street Saint Skills." |
1982-83 | On faculty of School of Management and Strategic Studies, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, La Jolla, California. |
1983-85 | Editor-in-Chief, Whole Earth Software Catalog, Doubleday. A magazine I founded, Whole Earth Software Review, failed conspicuously. |
1984 | Founded The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), a computer teleconference system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It now has 11,000 active users worldwide and is considered a bellwether of the genre---1988 Community Journalism Award from Media Alliance, 1990 Best Online Publication Award from Computer Press Association, 1994 Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award. (Others involved in starting The WELL were Larry Brilliant, Matthew McClure, and Kevin Kelly.) |
1984 | Initiated and organized "The Hackers' Conference," which became a TV special by Fabrice Florin, broadcast nationally. Since 1986 it is an annual event. |
1986 | Co-editor with Art Kleiner, News That Stayed News, North Point Press-anthology of greatest pieces from CoEvolution. |
1986 | Visiting Scientist, The Media Laboratory, MIT. |
1986-89 | Consultant with Group Planning, Royal Dutch/Shell, London. |
1987 | Author, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, Viking Penguin. Still in print (7th printing). Translated into Japanese, Korean, German, Italian, and Spanish (Spain and Latin America versions); British edition; QPB Selection; Eliot Montroll Award. |
1987-89 | Organizer of private conference series on Learning in Complex Systems sponsored by strategic planners at Royal Dutch/Shell, Volvo, and AT&T. |
1988- | Co-founder of Global Business Network with Peter Schwartz, Jay Ogilvy, Napier Collyns, and Lawrence Wilkinson. I founded and run the "GBN Book Club." GBN explores global futures and business strategy for 90 multinationals such as Lucent, IBM, Kodak, Monsanto, Disney/ABC, and Daimler-Benz. Most of my time these days is devoted to GBN work. |
1988 | Author of "Indians and the Counterculture, 1960s-1970s," in History of Indian-White Relations, Vol. 4 in the authoritative Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution. |
1989- | Member, Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, the interdisciplinary center studying the sciences of complexity. I am involved in design of the campus build-out. |
1989 | Received Golden Gadfly Lifetime Achievement Award from Media Alliance, San Francisco. |
1990-1994 | Member (now emeritus but active) of Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which supports civil rights and responsibilities in electronic media. |
1990- | Advisor to Ecotrust, Portland-based preservers of temperate rain forest from Alaska to San Francisco. |
1994 | Author, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, Viking-Penguin (US) and Orion (UK). Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. SPNEA Prize. Now in paperback. |
1995- | Co-founder with Danny Hillis of The Long Now Foundation to foster long-term responsibility. The core project is Clock/Library, building a 10,000-year Clock (designed by Hillis) and information service. Also on the board are Peter Schwartz, Brian Eno, Douglas Carlston, Esther Dyson, Paul Saffo, Michael Keller, Roger Kennedy, and Kevin Kelly. Serving as president. |
1996-1997 | Writer and presenter, "How Buildings Learn," 6-part TV series for the BBC. Aired in July-August 1997 on BBC2. Series directed by James Runcie, music by Brian Eno. |
1999 | Author, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, Basic Books (US) and Orion (UK). A mosaic of essays exploring the meaning and uses of a 10,000-year "now." |
Series 1. Stewart Brand Editorial files
Subseries 1. Correspondence
Letters [1 of 3] 1974
Letters [2 of 3] 1974
Letters [3 of 3] 1974
A 1975 - 1976
B [1 of 2] 1975 - 1976
B [2 of 2] 1975 - 1976
C 1975 - 1976
D 1975 - 1976
E 1975 - 1976
F 1975 - 1976
G 1975 - 1976
H 1975 - 1976
J 1975 - 1976
K 1975 [i.e. 1974] - 1976
L 1975 - 1976
M [1 of 2] 1975 - 1976
M [2 of 2] 1975 - 1976
Mc 1975 - 1976
N 1975 - 1976
O 1975 [i.e. 1974] - 1976
P 1975 - 1976
Q 1975 - 1976
R 1975 - 1976
S [1 fo 6] 1975 - 1976
S [2 fo 6] 1975 - 1976
S [3 fo 6] 1975 - 1976
S [4 fo 6] 1975 - 1976
S [5 fo 6] 1975 - 1976
S [6 of 6] 1975 - 1976
T 1975 - 1976
U 1975 - 1976
V 1975 - 1976
W 1975 - 1976
XYZ 1975 - 1976
A 1975 - 1976
B [1 of 4] 1975 - 1976
B [2 of 4] 1975 - 1976
B [3 of 4] 1975 - 1976
B [4 of 4] 1975 - 1976
C 1975 - 1976
D 1975 - 1976
E 1975 - 1976
F 1975 - 1976
G 1975 - 1976
H [1 of 2] 1975 - 1976
H [2 of 2] 1975 - 1976
I 1975 - 1976
J 1975 - 1976
K 1975 - 1976
L 1975 - 1976
M 1975 - 1976
Mc 1975 - 1976
N 1975 - 1976
O 1975 - 1976
p 1975 - 1976
Q 1975 - 1976
R [1 of 2] 1975 - 1976
R [2 of 2] 1975 - 1976
S [1 of 2] 1975 - 1976
S [2 of 2] 1975 - 1976
T 1975 - 1976
U 1975 - 1976
V 1975 - 1976
W 1975 - 1976
XYZ 1975 - 1976
TV 1975 - 1976
A 1976
B [1 of 3] 1976
B [2 of 3] 1976
B [3 of 3] 1976
C 1976
D 1976
E 1976
F 1976
G 1976
H 1976
J 1976
K 1976
L 1976
M [1 of 2] 1976
M [2 of 2] 1976
Mc 1976
N 1976
O 1976
P 1976
Point [1 of 2] 1976 [i.e. 1973 - 1975 ]
Point [2 of 2] 1976 [i.e. 1973 - 1975 ]
R 1976
S [1 of 4] 1976
S [2 of 4] 1976
S [3 of 4] 1976
S [4 of 4] 1976
T 1976
V [1 of 2] 1976
V [2 of 2] 1976
W 1976
XYZ 1976
A 1976 - 1977
B [1 of 4] 1976 - 1977
B [2 of 4] 1976 - 1977
B [3 of 4] 1976 - 1977
B [4 of 4] 1976 - 1977
C 1976 - 1977
D 1976 - 1977
E 1976 - 1977
F 1976 - 1977
G 1976 - 1977
H [1 of 2] 1976 - 1977
H [2 of 2] 1976 - 1977
I 1976 - 1977
J 1976 - 1977
K 1976 - 1977
L [1 of 2] 1976 - 1977
L [2 of 2] 1976 - 1977
M [1 of 2] 1976 - 1977
M [2 of 2] 1976 - 1977
Mc 1976 - 1977
N 1976 - 1977
O 1976 - 1977
P 1976 - 1977
R 1976 - 1977
S 1976 - 1977
T 1976 - 1977
U 1976 - 1977
V 1976 - 1977
W 1976 - 1977
XYZ 1976 - 1977
A 1977
B 1977 [i.e. 1976 - 1977 ]
C 1977
D 1977
E 1977
F 1977
G 1977
H 1977
I 1977
J 1977
K 1977
L 1977
M 1977
Mc 1977
N 1977
O 1977
P [1 of 2] 1977
P [2 of 2] 1977
R 1977
S [1 of 3] 1977
S [2 of 3] 1977
S [3 of 3] 1977
T 1977
V 1977
W 1977
XYZ 1977
A 1977 - 1978
B [1 of 2] 1977 [i.e. 1975] - 1978
B [2 of 2] 1977 [i.e. 1975] - 1978
C 1977 - 1978
Calif. Space 1977
D 1977 - 1978
E 1977 - 1978
F 1977 - 1978
G 1977 - 1978
H 1977 - 1978
I 1977 - 1978
J 1977 - 1978
K [1 of 2] 1977 - 1978
K [2 of 2] 1977 - 1978
L 1977 - 1978
M 1977 - 1978
Mc 1977 - 1978
N 1977 - 1978
O 1977 - 1978
P 1977 - 1978
Q 1977 - 1978
R 1977 - 1978
S [1 of 4] 1977 - 1978
S [2 of 4] 1977 - 1978
S [3 of 4] 1977 - 1978
S [4 of 4] 1977 - 1978
T 1977 - 1978
U 1977 - 1978
V [1of 2] 1977 - 1978
V [2 of 2] 1977 - 1978
W 1977 - 1978
XYZ 1977 - 1978
A 1978
B [1 of 2] 1978
B [2 of 2] 1978
C 1978
D 1978
E 1978
F 1978
G 1978
H 1978
I 1978
J 1978
K 1978
L 1978
M 1978
Mc 1978
N 1978
O 1978
P 1978
R 1978
S [1 of 3] 1978
S [2 of 3] 1978
S [3 of 3] 1978
T 1978
U 1978
V 1978
W 1978
XYZ 1978
A 1978 - 1979
B 1978 - 1979
C [1 of 2] 1978 - 1979
C [2 of 2] 1978 - 1979
D 1978 - 1979
E 1978 - 1979
F 1978 - 1979
G 1978 - 1979
H [1 of 2] 1978 - 1979
H [2 of 2] 1978 - 1979
I 1978 - 1979
J 1978 - 1979
K 1978 - 1979
L 1978 - 1979
M 1978 - 1979
Mc 1978 - 1979
N 1978 - 1979
O
P 1978 - 1979
Q 1978 - 1979
R 1978 - 1979
S 1978 - 1979
T 1978 - 1979
V 1978 - 1979
W 1978 - 1979
XYZ 1978 - 1979
A 1979 - 1980
B [1 of 2] 1979 - 1980
B [2 of 2] 1979 - 1980
C 1979 - 1980
D 1979 - 1980
E 1979 - 1980
F 1979 [i.e. 1978] - 1980
G 1979 - 1980
H 1979 - 1980
I 1979 - 1980
J 1979 - 1980
K 1979 - 1980
L 1979 - 1980
M 1979 - 1980
N 1979 - 1980
O 1979 - 1980
P 1979 - 1980
R 1979 - 1980
S 1979 - 1980
T 1979 - 1980
V 1979 - 1980
W 1979 - 1980
XYZ 1979 - 1980
A [1 of 2] 1979 [i.e. 1978] - 1980
A [2 of 2] 1979 [i.e. 1978] - 1980
B 1979 - 1980
C 1979 - 1980
D 1979 - 1980
E 1979 - 1980
F 1979 - 1980
G 1979 - 1980
H 1979 - 1980
J 1979 - 1980
K 1979 - 1980
L [Item for review by conservator] 1979 - 1980
M 1979 - 1980
Mc [1 of 2] 1979 [i.e. 1978] - 1980
Mc [2 of 2] 1979 - 1980
N [1 of 2] 1979 - 1980
N [2 of 2] 1979 - 1980
O 1979 - 1980
P 1979 [i.e. 1978] - 1980
Q 1979 - 1980
R 1979 - 1980
S 1979 - 1980
T 1979 - 1980
U 1979 - 1980
V 1979 - 1980
W [1 of 2] 1979 - 1980
W [2 of 2] 1979 - 1980
XYZ 1979 - 1980
Correspondence n.d.
Correspondence with noted authors regarding periodical [1 of 2] 1979 - 1980 [i.e. 1978 - 1979]
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence with noted authors regarding periodical [2 of 2] 1979 - 1980 [i.e. 1978 - 1979]
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Todd, John [Ocean Arks] 1980 - 1981
Rossi, Vincent 1981
A quickie history of Sofia, 1978 Apr. 23
Scope and Content Note
Marsh, Stanley. TLS, Amarillo, Texas to Stewart Brand, 1975 Nov. 7
Scope and Content Note
Marsh, Stanley. TLS, Amarillo, Texas to Stewart Brand, 1979 Oct. 10-11
Scope and Content Note
Two political cartoons.
Scope and Content Note
Subseries 2. Mickey Mouse lawsuit
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse: Buckle and Button n.d.
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse 1978 - 1979
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse 1979 - 1980
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse 1979
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse 1979
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse 1979
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse 1979
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse 1979
Walt Disney Regarding Mickey Mouse 1979
Subseries 3. Subject files
Co-Evolution Quarterly: Promotional Materials
Co-Evolution Quarterly
Reviews of "News that Stayed News:" Ten Years of the Co-evolution Quarterly
Whole Earth Software Review/ Whole Earh Software Catalog
Whole Earth Review/ Whole Earh Software Catalog: samples
Whole Earh Software Catalog [1 of 5] 1984
Whole Earh Software Catalog [2 of 5] 1984
Whole Earh Software Catalog [3 of 5] 1984
Whole Earh Software Catalog [4 of 5] 1984
Whole Earh Software Catalog [5 of 5] 1984
Publisher's Catalogs: Advertisements for the Whole Earth Software Catalog
Whole Earth Review - Reviews of [1 of 2]
Whole Earth Review - Reviews of [2 of 2]
Whole Earth Review - Clippings
Whole Earth Catalog
Next Whole Earth Catalog - Reviews
Whole Earth Review/ Next Whole Earth Catalog: promotional materials
Millennium Whole Earth Catalog/Essential WEC: promotional materials
Correspondence: Whole Earth Epilog 1974
"The Fringes of Reason: A Whole Earth Catalog"
Electronic Whole Earth Catalog
"Signal: Communications Tools for the Information Age"
"Always Two Steps Ahead" - article
"Always Two Steps Ahead" - transcript of interview
"Always Two Steps Ahead" : tapes [1 of 3]
"Always Two Steps Ahead" : tapes [2 of 3]
"Always Two Steps Ahead" : tapes [3 of 3]
Clippings [1 of 2]
Clippings [2 of 2]
New Games [1 of 4]
New Games [2 of 4]
New Games [3 of 4]
New Games [4 of 4]
Did She Keep Her People? - Film proposal to NEH
Proposal by Inform
School of Uncommon Courtesy
Two Cybernetic Frontiers : correspondence, contract, etc.
Two Cybernetic Frontiers / by Stewart Brand. -- New York : Random House, 1974
Clippings about WELL
Computer Hackers
"Texture of Life" and other writings by Stewart Brand
Clippings about Stewart Brand [1 of 7]
Clippings about Stewart Brand [2 of 7]
Clippings about Stewart Brand [3 of 7]
Clippings about Stewart Brand [4 of 7]
Clippings about Stewart Brand [5 of 7]
Clippings about Stewart Brand [6 of 7]
Clippings about Stewart Brand [7 of 7]
Awards and certificates
Flyers and cards
Weird Earth Review
Subseries 4. Personal Papers
Stewart Brand Personnal Correspondence [To be reviewed]
Julia Brand Correspondence
Brand Family Papers
Series 2. Jay Kinney Editorial files
Religion & politics : articles & authors [1 of 3]
Religion & politics : articles & authors [2 of 3]
Religion & politics : articles & authors [3 of 3]
Religion & politics : backscatter not used in No. 40 [1 of 2]
Religion & politics : backscatter not used in No. 40 [2 of 2]
Nix : letters for submission [1 of 2]
Nix : letters for submission [2 of 2]
Islam section : letters + reference + articles [1 of 2]
Islam section : letters + reference + articles [2 of 2]
This gift must always move: Essay: Manuscript and Correspondence
Miskitos/Nietschmann: clippings + correspondence [1 of 2]
Miskitos/Nietschmann: clippings + correspondence [2 of 2]
Series 3. Reader Correspondence
Reader correspondence, 1970 - 1979
Reader correspondence, 1979 - 1981
Reader correspondence [1 of 3] 1980 - 1981
Reader correspondence [2 of 3] 1980 - 1981
Reader correspondence [3 of 3] 1980 - 1981
Reader correspondence [1 of 2] 1981
Reader correspondence [2 of 2] 1981
Reader correspondence [2 of 2] 1981-1982
Reader correspondence [1 of 2] 1982
Reader correspondence [2 of 2] 1982
Reader correspondence 1982-1983
Reader correspondence 1988-1990
Reader correspondence
Reader correspondence - Art Kleiner Letters and Drawings
Reader correspondence - Issue no. 24 (Robert Crumb Cover) [1 of 3]
Reader correspondence - Issue no. 24 (Robert Crumb Cover) [2 of 3]
Reader correspondence - Issue no. 24 (Robert Crumb Cover) [3 of 3]
Pet hate column
Bioregional feedback
Crime letters
Reader response to Bold & regular [1 of 6] 1982
Reader response to Bold & regular [2 of 6] 1982
Reader response to Bold & regular [3 of 6] 1982
Reader response to Bold & regular [4 of 6] 1982
Reader response to Bold & regular [5 of 6] 1982
Reader response to Bold & regular [6 of 6] 1982
Series 4. Photographic layouts
Photographic layout : artwork & negatives
Photographic layout : artwork & negatives
Photographic layout : artwork & negatives
Series 5. Magazines & other publications
The updated last Whole Earth Catalog access to tools1974 May
CoEvolution (Paris). -- No. 71982 Winter
CoEvolution (Paris). -- No. 101982 Autumn
CoEvolution (Paris). -- No. 111983 Winter
Whole Earth Epilog1974
Whole Earth software catalog for 1986. -- Garden City, N.Y. : Quantum Press / Doubleday, 1985
The essential Whole Earth catalog. -- New York : Doubleday, 1986
Softtech / ed. by J. Baldwin & Stewart Brand. -- New York : Penguin Books, 1978
Series 6. Memorabilia
I am Salman Rushdien.d.
Seeds for thought / ed. by Shinichi Yoshifuku. -- In Japanese
Scope and Content Note
From Satori to Silicon Valley / Theodore Roszak. -- San Francisco : Don't Call It Frisco Press, 1986
Banner
Hand-painted envelope from S. Knutson
Life magazine1972 Dec. 15
Scope and Content Note
Oversize card by Susan Crutchfield
Paddington Journal clipping re: Whole Earth philosophy
Miscellaneous clippings and flyers protesting nuclear power
The one millionth copy of the Last Whole Earth catalog : presented to Stewart Brand on December 22, 19711971
Scrapbook
New Games tournament : broadside
Photograph of hospital bed
Poster of two swine copulating
Series 7. Audiovisual materials
Business Times. Whole Earth1984 Apr. 4