Guide to the Peder Jones Papers
MS.136
Finding aid prepared by Mary deVries
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
(831) 459-2547
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
9/23/2015
Title: Peder Jones Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS.136
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1967-1972
Abstract: The collection contains copies of Jones' senior thesis, unpublished manuscripts, and other writings, as well as ephermera,
pamphlets, posters, and Fluxus art from his time at UCSC and in Berkeley.
Creator:
Jones, Peder
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Peder Jones Papers. MS 136. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Peder Jones in 2014.
Scope and Content
Peder Jones was a member of the first group of students to attend Stevenson College at UCSC.The collection contains copies
of Jones' senior thesis, unpublished manuscripts, and other writings, as well as ephermera, pamphlets, posters, and Fluxus
art from his time at UCSC and in Berkeley, where he lived after leaving Santa Cruz. The materials reflect the activism and
new forms of literary, artistic, and political expression being explored in Santa Cruz and the Bay Area at the time.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous.
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Box-folder 1:1
Ephemera, publications, Fluxus art,
1966-1970
Box-folder 1:1
Pamphlet: "On wielding the subversive scalpel",
undated
Box-folder 1:1
"Happy New Year" card,
undated
Box-folder 1:1
Pamphlet: "Ten days that shook the university", Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous, Berkeley,
undated
Box-folder 1:1
Flyer for the Santa Cruz band, Sunburst,
undated
Box-folder 1:1
Letter to UCSC students from Dean McHenry, regarding campus closure following Kent State,
May 6, 1970
Box-folder 1:1
Flyer: "The dance of revolution…" Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous, Berkeley,
undated
Box-folder 1:1
Flyer: "Is this our fate?" Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous, Berkeley,
undated
Box-folder 1:1
Flyer: "We boycott grapes and Gallo wine" U.F.W.,
undated
Box-folder 1:1
"Land rising above a marsh: Revolution: Righteous, right-on, kaka politics." pages 107, 108, 109,
undated
Box-folder 1:1`
"Minimum definition Comix: Something to believe in", 3 page comic strip.
undated
Box-folder 1:1
"Omigosh! Look everybody! It's min def Comix! Part 2",
undated
Box-folder 1:1
The University of California as nine unnatural acts. Act nine. The politics of hibernation. Antonin Artaud,
1969
Box-folder 1:1
Fluxus artist trading cards (ATCs). VOID collection (19 cards),
1970
Box-folder 1:2
Audio cassette tape, "political rap",
undated
Box-folder 1:3
"Role discrepancy patterns occurring among students attending a college of the future", an exploratory study by students in
Methods of Social Research, taught by J. Mark Messer.
1968 or 1969
Box-folder 1:3
"What to do with the spring of our lives",
8/22/1969
Box-folder 1:4
Senior thesis, "Writing of a new religion",
1/14/1970
Box-folder 1:4
"Rejection", compilation of rejection letters,
6/7/1971
Box-folder 1:4
"Text of speech delivered by President Nixon to the 1972 ECBS Winter Carnival",
12/16/1972
"Speak out, you got to speak out…", 15x22, block print
January, 1970
"Year of the people, March for Peace" 18x23
November
