Dates:

1900-2009

Scope and content:

Series X: Subject File series (1877-2009) contains a wide range of topics that reflected Art Kunkin's interests, careers, and business ventures over his lifetime. The series includes esoteric and spiritual topics, such as alchemy, Tibetan Buddhism, astrology, and occultism. It also includes content related to self-improvement and self-realization, as well as organizations like the Erhard Seminars Training (EST) and the Philosophical Research Society. In addition, there are materials on communes, environmental and health issues, conspiracy theories, the Underground Press Syndicate, journalism, printing, and typography. The series includes material regarding several significant social movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, the New Age Movement, the Anti-War Movement, the Farmworkers' Movement, the Chicano Movement, and the Women's Rights Movement. The series also addresses religious, spiritual, and theological organizations and ideas such as Scientology, the Prosperos, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Mentalphysics, and Rosicrucianism. The series also contains materials on various political parties and ideologies, such as the Youth International Party (Yippies), the Black Panther Party, the Peace and Freedom Party, and the Green Party. Additionally, the series includes materials on notable figures such as Timothy Leary, Larry Flynt, Manly P. Hall, Mary Bauer Hall, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. The materials within this series encompass a variety of formats, including memoranda, letters, news clippings, photographs, flyers, brochures, interview transcripts, pamphlets, newsletters, scrapbooks, magazines, books, booklets, and small press chapbooks, among other items.

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