Walking Dead Record Label and Deaf Club of San Francisco Punk Music Collection, 1977-2024

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Summary

Extent:
13 box(es)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Walking Dead record label and Deaf Club of San Francisco punk music collection. Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of recorded sound, moving images, photographs, interviews, promotional material, organizational records, zines, correspondence, and other material relating to the San Francisco based Walking Dead record label and Deaf Club music venue dating 1977-2024.

Biographical / historical:

The Deaf Club was a San Francisco punk music venue operating 1978-1980. It was located within the San Francisco Club for the Deaf, a community center for the Deaf and hard of hearing, at 530 Valencia Street in the Mission District. Notable California punk bands that performed at the Deaf Club included Avengers and Offs, as well as Dead Kennedys, Dickheads, The Germs, Mutants, Noh Mercy, Pink Section, Tuxedomoon, U.X.A., and X.

Walking Dead, Gammon, and Khomeini Records were independent San Francisco-based record labels; daphne hanrahan, who founded the labels, also founded and managed the Deaf Club at the San Francisco Club of the Deaf, assisted there by Peter Worrall and Johnnie Walker.

Acquisition information:
The Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound acquired the collection from daphne hanrahan in 2023.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into nine series: (1) Walking Dead record label organizational records; (2) Deaf Club music venue material ; (3) Punk flyers, posters, and other ephemera; (4) Punk, post-punk, new wave, and reggae zines;(5) Photographic negatives and slides; (6) Recorded sound; (7) Moving images; (8) Printed material; and (9) Electronic records.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive of Recorded Sound for assistance.

Terms of access:

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head Librarian, Archive of Recorded Sound, Braun Music Center, Stanford, California 94305. Consent is given on behalf of the Archive of Recorded Sound as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns.

Preferred citation:

Walking Dead record label and Deaf Club of San Francisco punk music collection. Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

Location of this collection:
Braun Music Center, 541 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3076, US
Contact:
(650) 723-9312
soundarchive@stanford.edu
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