Guide to the Gerd Stern Papers M1954
Franz Kunst
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2018
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Gerd Stern papers
creator:
Stern, Gerd
Identifier/Call Number: M1954
Physical Description:
50 Linear Feet
(156 containers)
Date (inclusive): 1938-2012
Abstract: The papers of poet, writer, artist and multimedia pioneer Gerd Stern span over fifty years of creative work in the American
counterculture.
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[identification of item], Gerd Stern Papers (M1954). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical / Historical
Gerd Stern is a poet, artist, and multimedia pioneer whose remarkable life spans 40s bohemia, 50s Beat culture, 60s hippiedom,
70s hip capitalism, and continues today. Until his own biography is published, any account of Stern’s life must begin by referring
the reader to his extensive oral history conducted by he University of California Berkeley ("From Beat Scene Poet to Psychedelic
Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978, Interviews Conducted by Victoria Morris Byerly in 1996" http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt409nb28g).
While rather short on chronological detail, the interviews contain a wealth of insight about his life and accomplishments,
and thus allows this biographical note some brevity.
Gerd Stern was born in Saarland on the German/French border October 12, 1928 and emigrated to the United States with his family
as the Nazis rose to power. His father continued the family’s cheese importing company in New York, and both Stern and his
brother would later run the business. Gerd was initially interested in biology, winning a science fair competition and befriending
a guard at the Natural History Museum, Elsie Petersen, whom Stern credits with introducing him to the world of art and culture.
He also went to school with artist Ivan Majdrakoff, becoming lifelong friends and collaborators. At first studying zoology
at City College of New York, he then briefly attended Black Mountain College, where he had hoped to study poetry with M.C.
Richards, but she had left with her husband after the coup that left Josef Albers in charge. Stern was later neighbors in
New York with various communities of former BMC teachers & students, including Richards, Paul and Vera Williams, John Cage,
Merce Cunningham, and others, and corresponded with other attendees such as Knute Stiles and James Leo Herlihy.
After various travels west in the late 40s (including working in a mine in Virginia City, Nevada), Stern wound up back in
New York, destitute and in poor health. He was admitted to Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric Institute, where he befriended
Carl Solomon and later met Allen Ginsberg. After he left, Stern and poet John Hoffman worked as seamen on the Norwegian ship
M.S. Bowhill bound for South America. Hoffman’s death a few years later in Mexico casts a pall over much of Stern’s 1950s
poetry-related correspondence. After returning from South America, Stern worked various odd jobs in Greenwich Village, including
a press which published his first book of poems,
First Poems and Others, with Majdrakoff illustrating and Julia Pearl, his first wife, doing the calligraphy. Around this time, Stern became involved
with Jane Hill, later his first wife. After hitching around the country and living in New York, they eventually settled in
California.
For much of the fifties, Stern lived on a repurposed Navy laundry barge in Sausalito, California. Through his involvement
in poetry and jazz, Stern was a vital participant in the swinging San Francisco of the 1950s in which commercial and artistic
worlds freely intermingled. He managed composer Harry Partch, was namedropped in Herb Caen columns, dated (and managed) Maya
Angelou, read at poetry gatherings, went fishing with S.I. Hayakawa, marketed bamboo bongo drums, hosted jam sessions with
Chet Baker and other jazz musicians with films and dancers on his barge, and produced fine press poetry broadsides with his
wife Jane (Poetry in Folio). Stern worked at public radio station KPFA and was close to founder (and fellow poet) Lew Hill.
He had met Juan de Angulo in Big Sur on his first trip West and was an early champion of his work, as well as later that of
Marshall McLuhan, and of the latter there is a substantial file of correspondence. Among various occupations around this time,
Stern was a publicity agent and a little later a journalist, writing for
Playboy and other magazines.
USCO
The sixties can be seen as the USCO era, although USCO (aka Us Company or the Company of Us) didn’t really begin until at
least 1963. In the aftermath of his second divorce, Stern rented his houseboat to Stewart Brand and moved back to rural New
York. Stern moved in artistic circles dense in the area around Woodstock, and bonded with a painter named Stephen Durkee who
lived in an old church in Garnerville with his wife Barbara. Stern had began creating mechanical sculptures as a natural extension
of his poetry, only based on the iconography of street and traffic signs. In order to raise funds for a particular sculpture
project, Stern arranged a two night multi-media performance at the San Francisco Museum of Art (as it was then known). These
events required audio techical assistance, and Stern enlisted Michael Callahan, a young engineer working with the San Francisco
Tape Music Center. A successful touring show based on these events became known as the Verbal American Landcape, and when
Callahan joined Stern and Durkee in New York, USCO coalesced. Also centrally involved were Gerd’s wife Judi Stern, filmmaker
Jud Yalkut, Walter Gundy, Jonathan Ayers, Jonathan Altman, Paul Williams, and many others. The church became USCO’s headquarters,
with various people moving in and out (among them Brand and wife Lois, Dion Wright, and many others), and eventually a portion
of the building was devoted to a meditational space called The Tabernacle which was open to the public on Sundays.
One of USCO’s main activities was producing multimedia installations, including touring programs throughout the United States
and Canada (mostly galleries and universities), making films (“Y” was made by Stern, Majdrakoff and Callahan) and working
in theater & performance, video art, discotheques, and other prototypical venues such as the Millbrook estate of the Castalia
Foundation. USCO produced media backgrounds for Castalia-sponsored Timothy Leary lectures in New York City, and for a time
Steve Durkee lived and toured with Richard Alpert. averick Systems was formed between Stern and Callahan to produce the hardware
(including mixers, projectors & strobe lights) for these shows, which were also sold to other interested parties. As an additional
sideline USCO distributed posters, diffraction mirrors, and other items to head shops. Money proved difficult to recoup from
this venture, however. Many factors were involved in USCO’s breakup, but essentially the schism involved eastern religion
(especially Meher Baba), moving west (the Lama Foundation, at first called Solux), the use of drugs, and the ethics of commercial
media work (to some, marketing feminine hygiene products as groovy was a step too far).
Intermedia Systems Corporation
Media production company Intermedia Systems Corporation (ISC) began in 1968 in Cambridge, Massachusetts evolving from various
Harvard Business School initiatives and restructuring in the early 70s with Stern installed as president. ISC was active internationally
throughout the next ten years with projects including a wide variety of presentations, slide shows, installations, exhibits,
recordings, and other media productions. Clients included universities, museums, government and non-profit groups & foundations,
expositions & trade shows, and especially companies involved with real estate, development, nuclear power & other industry,
electronics, and education. Their efforts included a recording studio and production facility. They were also involved in
a number of Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities & National
Endowment for the Arts projects, especially a large grant for Abraham Lincoln historical sites. There are also many files
concerning the production of training films for football and for railroad safety inspectors, in the marketing of Carribean
Global Village (a real estate development in the Turks & Caicos Islands), and laser shows. ISC worked with a range of companies
such as Armco Steel, Synergetics (built domes in Venezuela), Astrodine (a space-themed restaurant chain), ARP synthesizers,
Landscape Architecture magazine, and with groups such as America the Beautiful (Stern was on the board), the Economic Development
Administration (Indian Reservation project), the National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET), and WGBH. There were
a great number of projects in Venezuela. The studio recorded musicians such as Paul Pena, Charlie Mariano, and Roger Powell,
and also made recordings by Timothy Leary, Huey Newton, Reb Zalman and others. ISC also worked with many artists, and were
simultaneously active in intermedia, video art, public television and educational programming, media studies, theater, and
sculpture. Intermedia Systems Corporation declared bankruptcy in 1978.
Stern continued to work under the Intermedia umbrella, and much of the later correspondence bears its letterhead. For that
matter, there are also 1970s letters of a more personal or informal nature with Intermedia’s logo, but that is generally characteristic
of the collection as a whole. There was not so much a division between personal and professional in his relationships. Fewer
files are present from the 1980s and beyond, although Gerd continues to write, publish, and show in galleries.
In addition to this work, Stern was an Associate in Education at Harvard, and lectured at University of California, Santa
Cruz (despite having no college degree himself). His poetry books include the following:
Stern, Gerd, and Bern Porter.
First Poems: And Others. Sausalito, Calif.: B. Porter Books, 1955.
McLean, Jean; Laura Uronovitz [Ulewicz]; Michael Grieg; Ann London; Gerd Stern; Robert Stock; Carol Christopher Drake; Jack
Gilbert.
Seven Stray Cats Reading Their Poems in Sausalito/ Poetry San Francisco Presents Seven Stray Cats in Sausalito. [Sausalito, Calif. : publisher not identified], 1957.
Seven Stray Cats Reading Their Poems [in San Francisco]. [San Francisc, Calif. : publisher not identified], 1957.
Stern, Gerd.
Afterimage: Poems. Woodstock, N.Y: Maverick Books, 1965.
Gilbert, Jack.
Seven Stray Cats Reading Their Poems in the Six Gallery, San Francisco. Pittsburgh, PA: Caliban Bookshop, 1995.
Stern, Gerd.
Whenthen. Loveland, Ohio: Dos Madres Press, 2018.
Stern’s solo and collaborative multi-media projects with USCO have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum
of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, Tate Museum, Vienna’s Kunsthalle, and Centre Georges Pompidou.
Scope and Contents
This collection is primarily correspondence, and outgoing drafts predominate, although there are many rich exchanges. These
drafts are almost always dated, which provides an excellent chronology overall. One might expect media to play a greater role
given the subject, however there are very few films or photographs (but lots of slides, mostly Intermedia), and the audio
component, which are almost entirely open reel tapes that have not been processed (they are also mostly Intermedia). As as
been noted, the majority of files date from the 1960s and 70s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Poets, American -- 20th century
Multimedia (Art)
Stern, Gerd
USCO
Intermedia Systems Corporation
Series 1. Personal/general correspondence
Scope and Contents
For the most part, correspondence not directly related to USCO, Intermedia, or any of Stern's other professional endeavors.
However, there is related correspondence in those series, and letters here may also refer to similiar activities. Includes
material concerning personal and legal matters, postcards, announcements, notes, etc. There is a separate series for family
correspondence, but again there is overlap. A few files were labeled and these titles were retained.
box 4, folder 8
Fran Deitsch
circa late 1940s-early 1950s
Scope and Contents
Two oversize letters with ink portraits
box 5, folder 1
Personal/general correspondence
1944-1959
Scope and Contents
Includes Mary S. to "Blanche, Wal, Ed & pups" 1944 ; to Selective Service Board 1950 ; to Mr. Homestead, Long Meadows Farm
1951 ; two from Donald Pleshette 1951 ; "excerpt from to Jordan Belson Jan 20 1954" ; to Sandy [Justice] 1957 ; to Richard
Pollard/LIFE re: barge party 1/27/57 with screening of Jordan Belson "Mandala" film and dancer Zack Thompson ; four envelopes
from Peter Friedeberg [later known as Pedro] ; Peter [Broome]- one to and two from 1958-59, mentions Chet Baker (as "Mr.
Chesney Baker," also Halima, & Chet Jr.), Stan Getz playing Blue Note, Andre & Gogo, etc.; to and from Leon Rosenbluth 1959;
etc.
box 5, folder 2
Personal/general correspondence
1960-1961
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from William Claxton ; to Stanley [Kunitz?] ; to & from Elizabeth Ames/Yadoo ; to & from Georgia [photographer]
; to & from Mimi [London] ; to Percy [Heath] ; etc.
box 3, folder 3
Legal - George G. Walker, etc.
1960-1964
box 5, folder 4
Personal/general correspondence
1962
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to and from Annemarie Hand ; to Alfdred Kazin ; to Anne Shipman re: Carl Solomon ; to Sylvia Spencer re:
Sari Dienes ; to Stanley [Kunitz?] ; to & from Luther Nichols, Doubleday & Co. ; to & from June Oppen Degnan ; etc.
box 5, folder 6
Personal/general correspondence
1963
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Annemarie Hand ; to Betsy and Ep [Epstein] ; to and from Jake Ehrlich ; to Bob [Robert Indiana] ; to
and from John Coplans ; to Sidney Gordin ; to International Federation for Internal Freedom[?] ; from Robertito re: Zihuatenejo
; to Harvey re: Roseman etc. ; from Arthur [Josephson] ; etc.
box 5, folder 7
Personal/general correspondence
1964
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Sally re: "Y" and Brakhage, etc. ; to Knute Stiles ; to & from Jim Johnson ; to & from James Merrill ;
to Charles [Rotmil?] ; from Nina Karp ; etc.
box 5, folder 8
Personal/general correspondence
1965-1966
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Mona [Carmel?] ; from Pat & Lew [Tavenner] ; from Brian [Peterson] ; to Annemarie [Hand] ; etc.
box 5, folder 9
Personal/general correspondence
1967-1970
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Norm Berg ; from Shelley re: swimming with John Lilly dolphins ; from André VandenBroeck & Gogo ; to
& from Mary Gardner ; from Bella Spewack re: Ayers family, Kiss Me Kate ; from Eva Hesse (postcard) ; from Gerald Wapner ;
to Hans [Neumann?] ; from Victor di Suvero ; from Mitsou Naslednikov ; to Walter & Peggy Bowart ; to & from Claire Cooperstein
; to Thomas O'Keefe, Jr./Obion, Russell & Co. re: art collection insurance, with list ; to David Halperin ; from Liam [O'Gallagher]
; from Tom [Porrett?] ; to & from Peg Culler ; etc.
box 5, folder 10
Personal/general correspondence
1971-1972
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to & from Sheila Campion ; to & from Norm/Naum Berg ; to & from Malcolm Brown ; to Yoko Ono ; to & from George
Culler ; to John C. Lilly ; to Toby Rafelson ; from Annette Laporte ; from Holmes Alexander ; etc.
box 5, folder 11
Ted Becker
1971
Scope and Contents
re: "Head" screening in Hawaii, K-3, etc.
box 5, folder 12
Personal/general correspondence
1973-1975
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Walter & Peggy Bowart ; from Gerald Wapner ; from Anne [Focke], and/or ; from Natalie Drache ; to Morag
Benepe ; from Jonathan [Ayers] ; from Stafford Beer ; to Shirley Clarke ; to Fletcher Benton ; from CArl Andre [postcard]
; from Elsa Dorfman ; etc.
box 5, folder 13
Personal/general correspondence
1976-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to & from Grace Wapner ; to Gerry Wapner ; to & from Kenneth Wapner ; to Mary Orser ; to Mark di Suvero ;
from Andre Reudi ; to Harvey Wallerstein ; to Harold Zellerbach ; from Zubin Shahastra ; etc.
box 5, folder 14
Personal/general correspondence
1978-1980
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Zubin Shahastra ; various grant applications ; to & from Isabel Wasserman ; to Sunny Goldstein ; from
Coleen Chandler ; from Lilo Pohl ; to & from Toby [Rafelson] ; from Maria Termini ; from Naum Berg ; to & from Rochelle Jones
; to Liam and Bob [O'Gallagher & Rheem] ; etc.
box 5, folder 15
Fernand Leger drawing sale
1979
box 5, folder 16
Personal/general correspondence
1981-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Susan Homer ; from Mitchell Benoff ; to Bert [Schneider] ; to Michael Nesmith ; to & from Sondra Byrnes
; from Peter Beren ; to & from Beth & Sandor Burstein ; etc.
box 6, folder 1
Personal/general correspondence
1985-1986
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Elaine Shragge ; to Doris Cross ; from Walter [Gundy] ; to & from Sandor Burstein ; to & from Malika
Lee Whitney ; to Fay Gold ; to Gary Margolis ; to & from Carolyn Ritchie McCall ; to Jane Somerville with draft of cheese
article ; etc.
box 6, folder 2
Personal/general correspondence
1987
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Malika Lee Whitney ; from Martha Wilson/Franklin Furnace re: Ken Dewey retrospective ; to Eric Harth ;
to Bernice Steinbaum ; from Werner Liepolt ; to Norm Berg ; from Ernesto de Sousa [postcard] ; to Wayne Wadhams ; to Leonard
Yaseen ; to Grace & Jerry Wapner ; to & from Jorge Weil ; etc.
box 6, folder 3
Personal/general correspondence
1988
Scope and Contents
Includes GS "Some Advice about Visiting Poetreef" ; letters from Malika Lee Whitney ; to David Ward-Stenman ; from Carlos
Penaherrera ; etc.
box 6, folder 4
Ernesto de Sousa/Phill Niblock/Portugal
1992
box 6, folder 5
Arts Horizons/WBGO Festival of Music
1992-1998
box 6, folder 6
Personal/general correspondence
1989-1996
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Rubin Gorewitz ; from Rogier Gregoire ; to & from Grace Wapner ; to & from Bill Robinson ; to & from
Doris Cross ; to & from Ethel Hultberg ; to David Ross/San Francisco Museum of Art ; to & from Jan Bast ; from Victor di Suvero
; etc.
box 6, folder 8
Undated incoming, signed
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Peter Broome ; Michael Collins ; Guerdon Bill ; Harvey Gruenwald ; William S. Kable ; Carolyn Ritchey
McCall ; Bard [Norville] with draft GS letter ; Bill Robinson ; André VandenBroeck & Gogo ; Lilia Walewski ; Brad Wallin ;
Ann Wilson ; Zubin Shahastra ; etc.
box 6, folder 9
Undated incoming, unidentified
Scope and Contents
Most are signed are by first name only.
box 6, folder 10
Undated incoming
circa 1960s
Scope and Contents
Letters mentioning Gerd's partner Judi.
box 6, folder 11
Undated incoming
circa 1970s-1990s
Scope and Contents
Letters mentioning Gerd's partner Sally.
box 6, folder 12
Postcards, holiday cards, etc.
mostly undated
Series 2. Correspondence by name
box 7, folder 1
Nancy de Angulo
circa 1951-1977
Related Materials
University of California, Santa Cruz holds the Lucy Shepard Freeland papers ( MS 83)
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9v19p3j7
Scope and Contents
Nancy de Angulo (Lucy Shepard "Nancy" Freeland) was the second wife of linguist/author/ethnomusicologist Jaime de Angulo.
They were divorced in 1943. Gerd had met Jaime in Big Sur on his first trip to California, not long before his death in 1950.
Stern was active in getting his
Indian Tales and other works published, and the correspondence is primarily about locating the manuscripts. Many letters are undated or
are rough outgoing drafts. There are also frequent mentions of mutual friend Bard (Norville).
Nancy thought that Jaime had wanted Ezra Pound's wife Dorothy to act as literary executor, and thus some of the letters mention
her. However, from her there is only a postcard containing the response "Thank You. -D. Pound," as well as drafts of letters
from Stern to Ezra Pound. Poet Marianne Moore had at some point been entrusted to manage
Indian Tales and served as an intermediary, but there is only one exchange here. There is also a postcard from daughter Guiomar de Angulo.
Also included is de Angulo's "Seven Indian Tales" from
The Hudson Review, with an announcement that A.A. Wynn would be publishing
Indian Tales in September 1952, and Turtle Island Foundation ephemera, including a short card from Bob Callahan after Nancy's death in
1977.
See also John Idlet file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Angulo, Jaime de
Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972
box 7, folder 2
Eugene Anthony
1961-1964
Scope and Contents
Photographer whom Stern met around December 1959. W worked with Stern on articles including Sabella's in
Cavalier, Enrico's for
Show Business International, also possibly a Vacaville prison article for
Coronet. Worked for Black Star in Brasil, and some letters sent from there. Later known for Haight-Ashbury series which was published
in book form in 1980.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Anthony, Gene
box 7, folder 3
Thad Ashby
circa 1963-1964
Scope and Contents
Stern submitted Ashby's manuscript "The Duke Dies, Crazy, Cool" to Playboy magazine in 1963 (two copies included here). Mentions
of "B&B" i.e. Bernard Roseman and Bernard Copley, also discusses failed Leary/IFIF venture in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
According to this website, Ashby was associated with Ayn Rand, Alan Watts, and Robert Heinlein: http://dragonflyranch.com/dragonflyer_thaddeus.html
box 7, folder 4
Hal Babbit
1963-1969
Scope and Contents
Patron and friend, executive at Kaiser. First supported Stern's "Who R U" event at the San Francisco Museum of Art (some correspondence
is filed there).
box 7, folder 5
Richard Baker/Zen Center
circa 1967-1984
Scope and Contents
While they may have met prior to this, Baker and Stern first worked toogther when USCO participated in a University of California,
Berkeley conference on LSD organized by Baker (see USCO files for that material, as well as for a second UCB conference on
communication that was cancelled). Intermedia also later consulted for the Zen Center on audio recording. Baker had also been
contracted to write the liner notes for an ISC-produced Huey Newton album, but that never came to fruition (a copy is filed
here, as is a copy of a letter from Baker to Newton).
Material in this file is largely informal in nature, although some correspondence concerns donations to the Zen Center and
the founding of Dharma Sangha. Also includes articles, two copies of the Zen Center publication
Wind Bell, and a promotional booklet with tipped-in photographs.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Baker, Richard, 1936-
San Francisco Zen Center
box 7, folder 6
Howie & Nan Becker
circa 1964-1967, 1972
Scope and Contents
Howard Becker is sociologist, author, pianist, and former professor at Stanford University. He and first wife Nan Harris Becker
were good friends with Gerd and Judi. The Beckers (including daughter Allison) participated in the "Who R U" event at the
San Francisco Museum of Art.
One postcard from Nan in Chicago was sent on a Bill Graham/Fillmore Auditorium handbill featuring the Paul Butterfield Blues
Band, Cream, Southside Sound System, August 22 - 27, 1967, with art by Bonnie MacLean.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Becker, Howard Saul, 1928-
box 7, folder 7
Vern & Madge Bennett
circa 1958-1963
Scope and Contents
Stern knew the Bennetts when he lived in Northern California in the late 50s and early 60s. Vern was a pianist and Madge was
an artist. They lived in Santa Cruz, Los Gatos, and in San Francisco during this time. The Bennetts are included in the well-known
Gordon Onslow-Ford photograph of Stern on his houseboat with Allen Ginsberg, Percy Heath, and Ann London.
box 7, folder 8
Peter Beren
circa 1971-1986
Scope and Contents
Beren is an author, editor, literary agent, and publishing consultant. He worked loosely with Intermedia on various projects
(he lists himself as "promotion manager" on a resume), and there are some related materials filed there.
Beren was a prolific correspondent, and in these letters there are various mentions of John Brockman (including copies of
letters to him), Stewart Brand and Point Foundation, Ralph Gleason, KPFA, the Zen Center and Green Gulch, And/Or Press, and
Sierra Club Books (Beren worked for the latter two). There are also two newspaper clippings.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Beren, Peter
box 7, folder 9
Paul [Blackburn]
1950-1951
Scope and Contents
Four letters written to Stern from Washington D.C. and Takoma Park, Maryland, while Blackburn was visiting Ezra Pound (he
mentions Pound, as well as his wife Dorothy, who had told him about Jaime de Angulo's death). There is also a critique of
one of Stern's poems, as well as some extended general thoughts on poetry.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Blackburn, Paul
box 7, folder 10
Stewart Brand
1962-2006
Scope and Contents
This important series of letters, the majority of which are dated, begins in August 1962, while Brand was renting Stern's
barge in Sausalito. Brand would assist with photography for the "Who R U" event at the San Francisco Museum of Art the next
year, and they would consult and collaborate through the next decade. Stern and USCO had a role in Brand's "America Needs
Indians" events as well as other productions such as his WAR/GOD multimedia project. Brand's photographs were also used by
USCO in various capacities. Stewart and his wife Lois were frequent visitors to the Church in Garnerville, New York in their
travels, and these letters announce the Whole Earth Truck Store, as well as the Whole Earth Catalog (which Intermedia informally
distributed, at least for one issue).
See also the USCO and Barge files, although most Brand-related material has been filed here. He is frequently mentioned in
other correspondence, including Stern's introductions to other people (Brand writes here "thank you, sir, for the letters.
I shall see Fred Lyon this week, the others after that"). Stern also introduced Brand to John Brockman, and there is a letter
to him here (remarks concerning re:
By the Late John Brockman). There are also letters from and to others: a postcard signed Stewart & Lois (probably in Lois' writing) ; from Diana Shugart
; from Richard Raymond ; and from Brand to Steve and Barbara Durkee (they were close well before USCO).
The August 15, 1962 letter is a description of an informal concert by Barbara Dane on Stern's barge, and letters between Dane
and Stern are filed with the barge material (she had wanted to rent it for a nightclub, but it never happened). The remainder
of the 1962 letters are mostly about the sale of the barge, Brand's rent, and potential buyers (Dane, Bill Ryan/Contact or
Harry Partch).
A Polaroid photo of a hogan in New Mexico is enclosed with a March 26, [1965?] letter describing his experience there.
A February 12, 1968 letter on Portola Institute letterhead refers to the Augmented Human Intellect project at Stanford Research
Institute, Ken Kesey, George Walker, Ramon Sender "working with Buchla's stuff" and Neal Cassady ("you probably heard of Cassidy's
[sic] death; in Mexico, quietly, alcohol-nembutal; incredible").
An April 22, 1968 letter announces the founding of Whole Earth: "Starting in June Lois and I are going on the road with a
Whole Earth Truck Store to the landed intentional communities. If the notion takes we'll develop a Whole Earth Catalog--mostly
of tools, how-to, low cost services etc. Access service... "
A June 1968 WAR/GOD press release/program: "The 40-minute performance is a mix for two Kodak Carousel projectors and stereo
tape recorder...For assistance in assembling the tape we're grateful to Don Buchla and Gerd Stern." Also features a list of
audio sources.
The last letter is dated August 13, 1969 and is on Whole Earth Truck Store and Catalog letterhead.
File also includes the following:
Proposal re: Activities to Supplement UN Conference on the Human Environment, June 1972 ; card with photograph (possibly by
Brand?) on one side, and the word "Further" on a pink background on reverse ; America Needs Indians design (by Osborne & Stewart)
and press release, July 1964 ; Sensorium schedule 1965 ; various articles and clippings, including "Long Now" article from
The Sun 2001 and a New York Times review of Fred Turner's book in 2006.
Among the mentions (some brief, many recurring):
Ivan and Julia Majdrakoff ; Minor White ; Fred Lyon ; Durkees/Lama ; International Foundation for Advanced Study ("where could
I scare up the $500?") ; Zach Stewart ; Gordon Ashby ; Roger Somers ; Millbrook/Leary/Alpert/Castalia ; Mike Harner ; Walter
Chappell ; American Church of God ; Jack Loeffler ; Buckminster Fuller ; Dorothy Brett ; Knute Stiles ; KPFA (re: America
Needs Indians, "will do some programs and offered use of facilities and de Angulo tapes") ; Ken Kesey [Brand mailed photocopy
of SF Chronicle article about Kesey serving time at the San Mateo County Sheriff's Honor Camp 9/18/67] ; Education Fair (scheduled
for October 1968, but was cancelled) ; Jim & Cynthia Nixon ; Dick Raymond ; Paul Silbey ; Moshe Safdie ; Paul Lee ; Rolf von
Eckartsberg ; Tassajara ; Hans and Frances von Briesen ; Alton Kelley ; John Brockman ; ALLOY conference 1969 (included Brand,
Steve Durkee, Steve Baer, Drop City, etc.) ; Dean Fleming.
Related Materials
Stanford holds the Stewart Brand papers (M1237):
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4688803
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Brand, Stewart
box 73, folder 1
John Brockman
Scope and Contents
Brockman brokered various projects for USCO and later Intermedia. He was also a founder of the Reality Club, a social group/lecture
series based in New York. Brockman may be best known as a literary agent successful in lucrative contracts for books on computers,
including Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Software Catalog. See also USCO, ISC, Reality Club, etc.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Brockman, John, 1941-
box 7, folder 11
Herb Caen
circa 1961-1972
Scope and Contents
Caen and Stern became acquainted around the mid-1950s; as a society columnist he knew Stern's wife Ann London, whose father
managed the St. Francis Hotel.
The Sterns were mentioned frequently in his
Chronicle columns, and when Gerd began working in public relations, Caen printed news items from his clients. Much of their correspondence
is filed in the Public Relations series. Herb also arranged for Gerd to write a "Playboy On the Town" travel column for
Playboy magazine; the job had been offered to Caen but would not include a byline. Many letters filed here are undated but are likely
from the late 1950s to early 60s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Caen, Herb, 1916-1997
box 7, folder 12
Michael Callahan
1986-1998
Scope and Contents
Stern first met Michael Callahan when he visited the San Francisco Tape Music Center on the recommendation of Michael McClure,
who was friends & neighbors with the Center's co-director Morton Subotnik. Although only 16 years old, Callahan was the technical
director of the SFTMC, and designed and built electronics for their lab.
Stern asked Callahan to assist with his San Francisco Museum of Art projects, forming a creative partnership that extended
to USCO and later Intermedia. He was also primary in Maverick Systems Company, an USCO-related venture that sold strobe lights
and media equipment. Most files concerning Callahan can be found in those series; material here is correspondence from the
80s and 90s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Callahan, Michael, 1944-
box 7, folder 13
Mona Carmel
Scope and Contents
Personal letters to Stern, undated but probably 1950s and 60s. Some are addressed to Gerd when he went by "Jack."
box 7, folder 14
Remy Charlip
Scope and Contents
One undated exchange between them about one of Stern's "Destruction" events in New York. Charlip was a dancer with Merce Cunningham
who had gone to Black Mountain College and later wrote childrens' books.
box 7, folder 15
Tram Combs
1957-1963, 1977
Scope and Contents
Elisha Trammel (Tram) Combs, Jr. (b. 1924) was a poet and bookseller who lived in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Letters are
mostly about poets and poetry and mention Philip Lamantia, John Hoffman, Bern Porter, Lew Welch, Harry Redl, the Howl trial,
etc. A 5/20/63 letter: "do you know or know much about Gregory Bateson? who at Marthe Rexroth Schoen's suggestion wrote me
a few days ago that he was coming to St. Thomas shortly for a year of dolphinology with John Lilly..."
His main papers are at UC San Diego (http://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0123.html) with Stern correspondence
filed in Box 3 folder 2. University of California, Berkeley also holds Combs material, as do other archives (http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6834qrd).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Combs, Tram, 1924-
box 7, folder 16
Tony Conrad
1971
Scope and Contents
A brief series of letters concerning a screening of Conrad's
The Flicker at UC Santa Cruz. Conrad is also included on a Theatre of Eternal Music handbill filed in the Music series.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Conrad, Tony
box 7, folder 17
Abbott Fraser
1952-1958
Scope and Contents
Literary critic based in Oregon. Stern's aunt Elinor Pillsbury was a friend and introduced them. File also includes related
letters to and from J. Dean Fagerstrom (later known as UFO-ogist).
box 8, folder 1
Jack Gilbert
1958-1965
Scope and Contents
Poet Jack Gilbert collaborated with Stern on a puppet show called "Don't Flee the Scene Salty" and was part of the "Seven
Stray Cats Reading Their Poems" group reading and chapbook with Stern. An undated letter recounts Gilbert's experiences at
a Merry Prankster acid test in La Honda. File also includes poems, a bio, and a NYT Book Review article by Gilbert on the
1962 San Francisco Poetry Festival.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gilbert, Jack, 1925-2012
box 8, folder 2
Frank Granat
1961-1963
Scope and Contents
Franklin Lee "Frank" Granat (1929-2017) was the son of one of the founders of Granat Brothers Jewelers in San Francisco. After
graduating from Stanford University in 1950, Frank went on to be a Broadway producer and restaurateur in New York City. A
friend of Stern's wife Ann, they had written lyrics together (prior to this correspondence).
box 8, folder 3
S.I. Hayakawa
1961-1963
Scope and Contents
Hayakawa (known as "Don" here) was mutual friends with Herb Caen and A.C. Spectorsky, and they would occasionally go fishing
together. Most letters are about literary matters.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiyé), 1906-1992
box 8, folder 4
James Herlilhy
1962
Scope and Contents
Herlihy (who goes by Jim here) had gone to Black Mountain College and was mutual friends with M.C. Richards. Discussion includes
poetry, publishing, and Key West (with a mention of Tennessee Williams).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Herlihy, James Leo
box 8, folder 5
Lewis Hill/KPFA
1953-1957
Scope and Contents
Stern became friends with Lew Hill through poetry circles and was involved with KPFA in the 1950s, serving as public relations
director from December 1954 to September 1955, according to an early CV. There are several letters from Hill (known as Lew
here), who committed suicide in 1957, beginning with a Stern draft from December 1953 concerning Harry Partch on KPFA. One
undated letter from Hill requests that Gerd seek permission from Philip Lamantia for reading his work on BBC. Other letters
include Stern (signed as PR Director) to Irving Stone 2/1/55 re: Boo Bams, Partch, Walt Kelly, etc. ; Hill memo to Program
Supervisors 1955 re: "plugging" ; copies of Harvey Wallerstein to Gunther Weil 1970s.
Other material filed here includes: Pacifica Foundation Articles of Incorporation 1946 & "Summary of Its Purposes & Organization"
booklet 1950 ; KPFA fundraising letter 1955 ; Lewis Hill typescript of poem ; annotated script for Hill's "A Word for Wallace
Stevens" program [aired in March 1955] ; Grace Clements' "Art in Our Time" program reading list ; two undated Folio program
guides & one page of undated guide listing "What Is a Wine Snob?" program hosted by Stern and featuring Mayacamas and Alexis
; clippings on Pacifica/KPFA.
Correspondence in Music, Harry Partch & P.R. files also refer to KPFA. See also Pacifica Foundation ephemera collection, 1949-1984
(M0425)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083075
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hill, Lewis, -1957
KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
box 4, folder 4
Ken Kesey clippings etc.
Scope and Contents
Also includes press release from Ken Kesey Defense Fund. See also 1964 letter from Faye Kesey re: Pranksters in New York in
USCO series.
box 8, folder 6
Richard Kostelanetz
1966-1994
Scope and Contents
Kostelanetz first worked with Stern when he wanted to write an article about USCO in 1966 after having met at the Riverside
opening (eventually published as "Scene and Not Herd" in
Harper's Bazaar, December 1967). The following year, Kostelanetz was contracted to write a book on multimedia, also including a feature on
USCO (Dial's
The Theater of Mixed Means).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Kostelanetz, Richard
box 8, folder 7
Philip Lamantia
1952-1962
Scope and Contents
Although he is mentioned frequently in letters to and from others, and he and Stern were close, there are very few letters
present here. The file begins with a 2/52 draft from Stern concerning the death of poet and mutual friend John Hoffman, and
the most substantial from Lamantia is a 20/25/54 letter about Hoffman and Bern Porter. An 11/16/54 letter includes a poem.
Also includes a typescript copy of "To Shake Up the General Catatonia" dated 1962-3. Other letters to or from "Philip" filed
elsewhere may be him.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005
box 8, folder 8
Janie "Chipmunk" Lewis
Scope and Contents
Lewis was part of the post-beatnik pre-hippie Oak Street scene in San Francisco, profiled in Dion Wright's Irregular Quarterly,
which also included a transcription of her prison journal (Vol. III : No. II, published in 1986, the year after her death).
Stern and Lewis seemed to have many mutual friends, and she met her husband, poet Peter Allen, at The Church. All her letters
are undated, but the one draft from Stern is dated 1962.
box 8, folder 9
Lotte Lichtblau
1947-1973
Scope and Contents
Lotte Adelberg Lichtblau (1925-2013) was an Expressionist painter whose sister Stern had a crush on in New York in the 1940s.
Some letters are by her husband Hans.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lichtblau, Charlotte, 1925-
box 8, folder 10
Fred Lyon
c.1962, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents
Although Stern and Lyon worked closely together (Lyon photographed Harry Partch, the San Francisco Museum of Art "Who R You"
event, and Stern's PR clients), there are only a handful of letters here, most addressed to Fred and Ann.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lyon, Fred
box 8, folder 11
Jackson Mac Low
circa 1954-1961
Scope and Contents
Only a few letters here between Stern and Mac Low, but there is a substantial sub-file of letters from Jackson to Vera Williams
around 1960. There is also a poem by Mac Low dated 7/24/54.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mac Low, Jackson
box 74, folder 1
Ivan Majdrakoff - from Stern
undated
Scope and Contents
Artist and educator Ivan Majdrakoff (1927-2015) was Gerd's oldest friend ; they attended the same public school in New York
City.
He designed the logo and did design for Poetry in Folio and later assisted with the filming of "Y" with Stern and Michael
Callahan (see USCO series for more). He also wrote the introduction to Gerd's UC Berkeley oral history. Due to their long
relationship, there is a great amount of correspondence between them (four full folders worth). However, many from Ivan are
undated. There are also letters from and to his first wife Julia ("Julie") Pearl, who was also a painter, and later an art
director at Intermedia (see box 74, folder 7).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Majdrakoff, Ivan, 1927-
box 74, folder 2-3
Ivan Majdrakoff
undated
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Majdrakoff, Ivan, 1927-
box 74, folder 4
Ivan Majdrakoff
1951-1964
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Majdrakoff, Ivan, 1927-
box 74, folder 5
Ivan Majdrakoff
1965-1998
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Majdrakoff, Ivan, 1927-
box 74, folder 6
Ivan Majdrakoff articles, handbills, etc.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Majdrakoff, Ivan, 1927-
box 8, folder 12
Alan Marcus
1961-1980
Scope and Contents
Alan Marcus (1922-2015) was a writer who lived in Carmel since 1955. His first book
Straw to Make Brick was a success in 1948, and he went on to write for radio, telelvision and film, as well as three other books and many short
stories and essays. He was also a jazz pianist. His wife of 63 years, Lotte, is a psychologist. In David Hajdu's
Positively 4th Street there is a short non-story about neighbor Joan Baez bringing Bob Dylan over but not really hitting it off. Nearly all letters,
which span forty years and thus provide an excellent chronology, are between Alan and Gerd, although many are also addressed
to "Alan and Lotte." File also includes several essays and other writing by the Marcuses.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Marcus, Alan, 1922-
box 8, folder 13
Judy McBean
circa 1963-1998
Scope and Contents
Society girl, art patron, and close friend of Gerd's for many years, Judith Diana McBean (later Judy Hunt and Judith Cosper)
was the daughter of prominent San Franciscan Peter McBean. She supported Gerd's art and poetry efforts beginning in the early
1960s, helping with the planning and promotion of the 1963 SF Museum of Art events and later assisting with
Afterimage subscriptions. She also purchased some of Stern's artwork. In 1965 McBean married Harry Hunt and there are a few letters
to and from him, as well as one from Judi Stern to Judy. Judy's sister Sheila may have written a few letters in the personal
correspondence series. File also contains a few newspaper clippings.
Among those mentioned frequently in the letters are Michael Callahan, Ivan Majdrakoff, Steve Durkee, Hal Babbitt, Michael
McClure, Paul Williams and Howie Becker, as well as mentions of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, Liam [O'Gallagher?], Varda, Victor
di Suvero, Lenore Tawney, Peggy Guggenheim, Cy Twombley, and Lou Harrison. See also "Who R U and What's Happening" files.
box 8, folder 14
Michael McClure
circa 1961-1967
Scope and Contents
Although he's mentioned frequently in other letters, there is very little correspondence between Stern and McClure here, almost
all outgoing drafts dating from 1962 (one undated postcard and photocopied letter from McClure). The remainder of this file
consists of the following: programs for "The Blossom or Billy the Kid" and "The Beard" (USCO worked on the latter; see also
USCO files) ; Stern typescript draft of review of McClure's Meat Science Essays ; untitled typescript in Beast Language. More
material filed in oversize.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
McClure, Michael
box 4, folder 5
Michael McClure printed material
box 8, folder 15
Marshall McLuhan
1963-1976
Scope and Contents
Stern was loaned a pre-print copy of McLuhan's
Understanding Media in 1961; three years later, Stern and McLuhan both participated in the University of British Columbia's Festival of Contemporary
Arts. From then on, they exchanged letters for over ten years (although there is a gap between 1968 and 1975). Gerd also frequently
recommends McLuhan's books in letters to others. McLuhan also introduced Stern to introduced to Edmund "Ted" Carpenter, whose
correpondence is filed in USCO. File also include article photocopies and clippings.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980
box 8, folder 16
Phill Niblock
1968-1978
Scope and Contents
Filmmaker and composer Niblock worked with Stern at Intermedia, and there is more material there (which overlaps with this
file). Moderate amount of correspondence, along with Guggenheim and other grant applications, promotional material, articles,
and event publicity.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Niblock, Phill, 1933-
box 8, folder 17
Gordon & Jacqueline Onslow-Ford
circa 1953-1964
Scope and Contents
Painter Gordon Onslow-Ford and his wife Jacqueline lived in Mill Valley when Gerd & Philip Lamantia first came to visit; Gordon
also owned the old ferryboat
Vallejo in Sausalito, where he had a studio. He lent Stern a berth at the shipyard, after which through roundabout circumstances
Gerd became owner of his own vessel (a former navy laundry barge) and was thus part of the vibrant houseboat scene through
the 1950s. Stern also first Harry Partch at a party at the Onslow-Fords (GOF 11/16/53: "PS Harry told us how grateful he was
for your exertion on his behalf. I don't suppose we will be able to come to Berkeley at the concert but will surely listen
on KPFA"). One letter is from Jacqueline and one is addressed to Gordon & Jacqueline. See also Barge files.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Onslow-Ford, Gordon
box 9, folder 1
Nam June Paik
1965-1975
Scope and Contents
One letter from Paik re: WGBH 1970s, and one from Stern at Intermedia dated 1975 re: Documenta VI in Venezuela (which Intermedia
had a strong role in organizing, see Intermedia files for more), also photocopy of Documenta press release and a few Paik
publicity items: Electronic Video Recorder, Cafe Au Go Go October 1965 and Galeria Bonino Electronic Art II (undated).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006
box 74, folder 7
Julia "Julie" Pearl
circa 1965-1968
box 9, folder 2
Elsie "Petie" Petersen
1944, 1946, 1985-1994
Scope and Contents
As Gerd relates in more detail in his Berkeley oral history, Petersen was "the young woman I had met at the museum and who
kind of got me into the whole music and art crowd." Two early letters from Petersen mention Ivan Majdrakoff. Later correspondence
involves legal troubles and the settling of her estate.
box 9, folder 3
M.C. Richards
1953-1964
Scope and Contents
Poet M.C. Richards had just resigned from Black Mountain College when Stern arrived to study with her; however, a BMC contingent
moved to in rural New York including Richards, Paul & Vera Williams, John Cage, David Tudor, La Noue Davenport, Karen Carnes,
David Weinrib and others, forming a loose community known as The Land (and later Gate Hill Cooperative). When Stern moved
back east in the early 1960s, he became their neighbor. But Gerd's association with Richards actually predates his visit to
Black Mountain. In the earliest letters here, Richards lived in Oakland, and they discussed publishing Richards' translation
of an Artaud manuscript among other poetic matters. Throughout the letters there are also mentions of Cage, Merce Cunningham,
Harry Partch, KPFA, City Lights, Jim Herlihy, Marshall McLuhan, Arthur Josephson, and many others. File also includes a poem
for Vera [Williams] 1963, a critical article based on Richards' writing, and an obituary. See also Arthur Josephson letter(s)
filed elsewhere.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Richards, Mary Caroline
box 9, folder 4
Rene di Rosa
1963-1998
Scope and Contents
Bay Area art collector and vintner (1919-2010).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Di Rosa, Rene
box 9, folder 5
Carolee Schneemann
1966-1977
Scope and Contents
Carolee worked with Gerd and USCO a little, including choreographing "Ghost Rev" and participating in group film/performance
events along with them. As artists in related media living in New York they also ran in similiar circles. Stanford holds the
Carolee Schneemann papers (M1892): https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9631452
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-
box 9, folder 6
Jack & Colleen Simpson
1960-1998
Scope and Contents
Jack Simpson (sometimes known as Jak although he signs his name in a variety of ways) was a poet and art teacher who lived
around the Bay Area; he and his wife Colleen were close friends with Gerd and his family. In the period before these letters,
Simpson was involved with the BooBam Bamboo Drum Company (see Music series) and introduced Stern to Maya Angelou (see Personal
series). Later, the Simpsons sold USCO merchandise including posters and diffraction gratings. There are mentions of Stewart
Brand, Janie [Lewis?], Bill Loughborough, Buckwheat, the Durkees, Millbrook, Bucky Fuller, Carol Berge, the San Jose State
LSD conference in May 1964, and the emerging Haight-Ashbury. Jack is mentioned a number of times in James Gavin's
Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker.
box 9, folder 7
Carl Solomon
circa 1962-1967, 1990
Scope and Contents
It is well known that Allen Ginsberg first encountered Carl Solomon (to whom he would dedicate
Howl) at the Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric Institute; it is perhaps less understood that Gerd Stern had already been admitted
and had befriended Carl prior to Allen's arrival.
Later, Solomon, who was working for his uncle A.A. Wynn at Ace Books, helped publish Jaime de Angulo's
Indian Tales at Stern's urging. Solomon also arranged for William Burroughs'
Junkie to come out on Ace. There are only a few relatively insubstantial letters here, but they do mention Rexroth (re: Carco translations),
Lamantia, and others, and there is also a 1963 letter to Ted Wilentz re: Carl's address (replied by Mimi Jacobsen) and a 1990
letter from Don Kennison of Paragon House originally accompanying a book of Solomon's.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Solomon, Carl, 1928-
box 9, folder 8
Alan Sondheim printed material
1968-1972
Scope and Contents
two booklets and one envelope addressed to Stern/Intermedia containing short letter and art book of unbound components.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sondheim, Alan
box 9, folder 9
John Thomas Idlet
1953
Scope and Contents
A few letters between Stern and Idlet concerning Jaime de Angulo, beginning with a letter from Idlet to Nancy de Angulo 1/16/53
(signed John T. Idlet, Jr., while stationed at Brooks AFB in Texas). Idlet first knew of de Angulo through Ezra Pound. Stern
was asked to reply on Nancy's behalf. Outside of literature, Stern mentions having just met Jordan Belson and Harry Partch
in a 5/30/53. Also includes four unsigned pages of prose, probably by Idlet. See also Nancy de Angulo file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Thomas, John, 1930-2002
box 9, folder 10
Emanuel Vardas
1953, 1957-1960
Scope and Contents
The 1953 letter is Vardas writing to his friend Archie after having met Stern (also mentioning Bill & Pam, Jane, & Harry Partch),
with Archie's reply on reverse. Remainder is correspondence spanning Vardas' incarceration in the late 1950s, beginning with
a letter from Stern to U.S. Federal Judge Walsh in Tucson, Arizona 2/21/57 prior to his sentencing. Last letter is 8/30/60
from Vardas after his release. There are mentions of Bill Loughborough, Buckwheat, Maya Angelou, Chet Baker, Jack Simpson,
Juanita Masson, Bill Claxton, and Sandy Jacobs, among others. Vardas is mentioned briefly (as Manuel) in James Gavin's
Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker.
box 9, folder 11
Herbert Vogel
1951-1954, 1962
Scope and Contents
Not the well-known art collector, Vogel (who later changed his last name to Uriel) was a friend of Gerd & Jane's in New York;
as per the UCB oral history, "we were living in New Paltz, and our very close friend, Herbert Vogel--he came from Europe,
and his father was in the business of cashing checks in New York City after he arrived as a refugee--a philosopher and a small
man with an intense stare through heavy glasses and an accent, and a person with whom I spent countless hours discoursing
about various philosophical and aesthetic theories and ideas and constructs." Vogel also wrote the introduction to Gerd's
First Poems and Others. There are mentions of Ivan & Julia, Thorberg Brundin, Philip Lamantia, and others.
box 9, folder 12
Paul & Vera Williams
1962-1979
Scope and Contents
Although they separated around 1967, Paul and Vera Williams are foldered together here. Both were part of the Black Mountain
College contingent that moved to "The Land" in New York. Paul, who was an architect, helped build some of Gerd's early poem
sculptures and built some related machines himself (he had an installation at USCO's Riverside show). Most of these letters
are outgoing drafts to Paul or Vera; in fact there is only one letter from Paul. There are also two letters from Barbara Macallum
to Vera, letters from the Everson Museum of Art to Vera re: a David Weinrib sculpture, and poems by Vera. There are also two
copies of the magazine
Liberation with cover art by her. The Williams and Stern had many mutual friends and both are mentioned often in other letters. See
also Jackson Mac Low letters to Vera.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Williams, Vera B.
Williams, Paul F., Jr.
box 9, folder 13
Patti Wilson
circa 1966-1970
Scope and Contents
Patti Wilson was at one time married to musician Ramblin' Jack Elliot, later met Barry McGuire at the Hungry i and was with
him for three years. Judi Wilson gave birth to Zalman around the same time Patti had Ever, and they continued to be close
after she and Gerd separated. Aside from the few letters between Patti & Gerd, there is also a letter to Patti from Maggie
[Ryan Denver] misdated 1/20/1962 while Patti was staying with Gerd in New York (mentions Tommy Masters, Victor Maymudes, Juke
Savages, Sante Fe, etc.) and a 1966 letter from Patti to Judi from Topanga, mentioning David Crosby and Barry. An undated
letter to Judi also mentions John Sebastian. Patti later remarried, and a photocopy of a 1970 Gerd letter is labeled "Patti
McGuire Elam."
box 9, folder 14
Dion Wright
1966-1997
Scope and Contents
Dion Wright (http://www.dionwright.com) is a painter and sculptor who spent alot of time in Laguna Beach and curated the art
at Mystic Arts World, but was also involved with USCO. He painted his most well-known work "Taxonomic Mandala" in Garnerville,
participated in their Down by the Riverside show, and a film of him and his then-partner Margaret Lerner was used at an Institute
of Contemporary Arts event. They also made crafts and helped sell USCO posters and gratings. Dion was part of Stewart Brand's
"Whatever It Is" festival at SF State and contributed art for
Psychedelic Review and Timothy Leary books. In these letters there are mentions (some brief) of the Durkees, Solux/Lama, Tim Leary, Patti Wilson
McGuire, John McIntyre/Canessa Gallery, the Haight Ashbury, Zach Stewart, Harry Partch, Mystic Arts World, Swami Dhirendra
Brahmachari, Jud Yalkut, Bob Beck, Tom Blackwell, "Lois & Stewart," etc. At least one letter is from Margaret to Gerd & Judi,
and many letters are signed Dion & Margaret. Dion produced a magazine called
Irregular Quarterly; later correspondence here concerns edits to various remembrances to be published there, including a 1992 exchange with Michael
Callahan. Wright also recounted USCO experiences in his memoir
Tempus Fugitive. See also USCO series.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Wright, Dion
box 9, folder 15
Dion Wright - Irregular Quarterly
Scope and Contents
many with with Stern & USCO
Vol.1 No.3
Vol.1 No.4 1983
Vol.1 No.5
Vol.2 No.3
Vol.2 No.4
Vol.3 No.1
Vol.3 No.2
Series 3. Who R You and What's Happening? - Contact is the Only Love - S.F. Museum of Art - Verbal American Landscape
circa 1962-1966
Scope and Contents
Prior to the formation of USCO, Stern produced a series of "poem-sculptures" evocative of traffic signs which incorporated
light, sound and primitive electronics. In the process of developing the piece "Contact Is the Only Love," which was to be
shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art, director George Culler offered the use of the museum's auditorium for a fundraising
event. With the help of his friend Judy McBean, who had first-rate contacts in San Francisco society, and patron Hal Babbitt,
who was an executive at Kaiser, a two-night multi-media project gradually came together that included "Live Public Figures,
Tape, Telephone, Television, Projected Images ... From the Verbal American Landscape" according to publicity.
The event was titled "Who R U?" for November 7th and "What's Happening" on November 12th, 1963. Among the invitees (many of
whom declined): Michael McClure, Imogen Cunningham, Hans von Briesen, Rene di Rosa, Dr. Richard Prest, Allen Ginsberg, Jake
Ehrlich, Jessica Mitford, Cyril Magnin, Richard Rubacher, Jeremy Ets-Hokin, Assemblyman Jesse Unruh, Governor Edmund Brown,
Mayor Harold Dobbs, Congressman John Shelley, and Lt. Governor Glenn Anderson. Also involved in the production were painter
Ivan Majdrakoff, sociologist Howard Becker, and the San Francisco Tape Music Center, especially its young engineer Michael
Callahan, who with Stern and Stephen Durkee would form an early core group of USCO. In fact, these events were considered
studies for the kind of multi-sensory environments USCO became known for with the touring "Verbal American Landscape" series.
Clippings about these events have been filed with USCO. More correspondence with participants and others involved can also
be found elsewhere.
box 22, folder 1
San Francisco Museum of Art
1963-1966
Scope and Contents
Primarily correspondence with director George Culler (more elsewhere).
box 22, folder 2
San Francisco Museum of Art - Who R U?/Contact is the Only Love flier & PR
box 22, folder 3
San Francisco Museum of Art - Verbal American Landscape notes
box 22, folder 4
San Francisco Museum of Art - Who R U? correspondence
box 22, folder 5
San Francisco Museum of Art - Who R U? Phillip Whalen review & correspondence
box 22, folder 6
San Francisco Museum of Art - Contact is the Only Love notes & sketches
box 22, folder 7
San Francisco Museum of Art - Contact is the Only Love fundraising
1963
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from or to Lou Sabella, William Roth, Victor di Suvero, Harry Hunt, George Walker, John Branston,
Hal Babbitt, Alexis Merab, and Jake Ehrlich.
box 22, folder 14
Verbal American Landscape proposals
box 22, folder 15
Verbal American Landscape tour correspondence
box 22, folder 16
Verbal American Landscape slide list & story board
box 22, folder 17
Verbal American Landscape - Billy Master track list
map-folder 70
"Contact is the Only Love" original drawings
1962
4.1 Correspondence, chronological
box 17, folder 1
Outgoing Stern correspondence
undated
box 17, folder 2
Unsigned correspondence
undated
box 17, folder 3-4
Correspondence
undated
Scope and Contents
Letters have been arranged alphabetically by author (although some are signed by first name only). Includes the following:
Agnes [Martin?] ; Chris Ames, UC Santa Cruz ; Jonathan Altman ; Jonathan Ayers (see also general corr. 1970s) ; Jordan Belson
; Carol Bergé ; Fran von Briesen (Barbara Durkee's sister) ; R. Lee Carlson, Arleigh Gallery ; Ted [Edmund] Carpenter ; Doris
Totten Chase ; Gary, Nova Productions ; Walter [Gundy?] ; Ann Halprin ; Dottie/Dorothy [Harrison] ; William A.C. Curtis Hayward
(copied excerpt) ; Joan [Brown? St. Thomas VI, mentions Tram Combs, Woodstock Art Gallery]; Nina [Karp] ; Paul [Lee, but possibly
also other Pauls]
Jean Martin ; Mary [Orser?] ; Joe and Rose Anne Mulkey, Trans Love Energies (4th & 5th from left in letterhead group photo)
; Pathe-Hall Productions ; Sasha Perkoff ; Brian & Mary Peterson (one on reverse of Mothers of Invention Fillmore handbill)
; Irmi Rosenthal ; Charles Rotmil to Steve Durkee, also group letter re: SOLUX ; Shell ; Sheil Selasnek, MD ; Chris & Ann
Sidenius ; Beryl Sokoloff ; Marilyn Stone ; Lew & Pat Tavenner ; "Us" ; Chris West, Double Happiness Traders Unlimited ; Will
; Judi Wilson to Ann & George
box 17, folder 7
Maurice Sokoloff proposal
1963-1965
Scope and Contents
Proposal (probably unrealized) for the production of t-shirts and sweatshirts with a traffic sign logo.
box 17, folder 8
San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner correspondence
1963-1964
box 17, folder 9
Correspondence
January-March 1964
box 17, folder 10
Correspondence
April-May 1964
box 17, folder 11
Correspondence
June-August 1964
box 17, folder 12
Correspondence
September-October 1964
box 17, folder 13
Correspondence
November-December 1964
box 17, folder 14
Michael Callahan correspondence
1964-1965
box 18, folder 1
Correspondence
January-March 1965
box 18, folder 2
Correspondence
April-May 1965
box 18, folder 3
Correspondence
June-July 1965
box 18, folder 4
Correspondence
August-September 1965
box 18, folder 5
Correspondence
October-December 1965
box 18, folder 6
Correspondence
January-February 1966
box 18, folder 7
Correspondence
March-May 1966
box 18, folder 8
Correspondence
June-July 1966
box 18, folder 9
Correspondence
August-September 1966
box 18, folder 10
Correspondence
October 1966
box 18, folder 11
Correspondence
November-December 1966
box 18, folder 12
Correspondence
circa 1967
box 18, folder 13
Correspondence
January-February 1967
box 19, folder 1
Correspondence
March 1967
box 19, folder 2
Correspondence
April-May 1967
box 19, folder 3
Correspondence
June-July 1967
box 19, folder 4
Correspondence
August-September 1967
box 19, folder 5
Correspondence
October-December 1967
box 19, folder 6
Correspondence
circa 1968
box 19, folder 7
Correspondence
January-February 1968
box 19, folder 8
Correspondence
March-May 1968
box 19, folder 9
Correspondence
June-August 1968
box 19, folder 10
Correspondence
September-December 1968
4.2 Projects/subject files
Scope and Contents
Some of these files were assembled from elsewhere in the collection. Also, not all USCO projects are reflected here, only
those with significant quantities of material.
Files related to the San Francisco Museum of Art and the "Verbal American Landscape," "Who R U and What's Happening?," and
"Contact is the Only Love" projects can be found in its own series below.
box 19, folder 13
Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Holland
1965-1968
Scope and Contents
Triple Diffraction Hex and Contact Is The Only Love were exhibited in the "Kunst-Licht-Kunst" show in 1966.
box 19, folder 14
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
1966-1968
Scope and Contents
USCO helped develop an overstimulation system for a research project directed by Marvin Zuckerman.
box 19, folder 15
Allan Stone Galleries, New York
1962-1964
Scope and Contents
"Nuts & Bolts" show flier, calendar listings, correspondence.
box 19, folder 16
Architectural League of New York
1966-1968
Scope and Contents
postcards, PR, correspondence with John Margolies chairman, Current Work Committee), including material for
"Environment II: Prisms, Lenses, Water, Light. A Collaboration by Charles Ross & USCO" 1/19 - 2/15/67.
box 19, folder 17
Baba, religion
1966-1968
Scope and Contents
Material concerning Avatar Meher Baba and Eastern religion, including two undated letters from Bob Dreyfuss (one sent from
Pakistan) ; Bob Lefkowitz to Steve Durkee ; Adi K. Irani to Stern and Barbara Durkee (2/13/66 Menlo Park) ; Eruch ; Bill
Harris, Sri Ram Ashram in Pleasant Valley, NY ; Swami Sivananda Radha, Yasodhara Ashram in Kootenay Bay, BC ; Girard "Gerry"
Brilliant ; Mikuschi Hamilton, Berkeley.
box 19, folder 18
Bard College, New York
1965-1966
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Arlene Krebs and others, as well as fliers for Stern's "Verbal American Landscape Take 3."
box 20, folder 1
Bob Beck, Bob Beck Light Associates
1966-1969
Scope and Contents
Beck was an early producer of psychedelic light shows in Southern California. His company also sold UFO films and slides.
Beck participated in Stewart Brand's "Whatever It Is" festival at San Francisco State. He was later involved with New Age
healing (http://www.bobbeck.com).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Beck, Robert C., 1925-2002
box 20, folder 2
University of California, Berkeley LSD conference
June 13-18, 1966
Scope and Contents
Contains programs, papers, correspondence, PR, and anti-LSD and related protest material.
Richard Baker was director of the Conference, prior to his involvement with the San Francisco Zen Center (see separate file).
Richard Alpert, Frank Barron, Sidney Cohen, Paul Lee, and Huston Smith were on the advisory committee, and most also spoke
at the conference, as did Timothy Leary and Rolf von Ekartsberg. USCO performed "We Are All One" and discussed multi-media
techniques. Although sponsored by UC Berkeley, the conference was moved at the last moment to the UCSF Extension Center in
San Francisco.
box 20, folder 3
University of California, Berkeley Communication & Media Conference (cancelled)
1967
box 20, folder 4
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
1964-1965
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, PR, notes & sketches. Stern's friend Paul Lee first sponsored an event in his capacity as as Protestant
Chaplain. Gunther Weil, who later be involved with Intermedia, was also in the Psychology Department. In April 1965 USCO
presented "Yield," and "We Are All One" the following month at the Creative Arts Festival.
box 20, folder 5
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1963-1964
Scope and Contents
Alvin Balkind, director of the Fine Arts Gallery, brought in USCO for their first major event during the Festival of Contemporary
Arts in January 1964. It was at this festival that Stern first met Marshall McLuhan.
box 20, folder 6
Byron Gallery, New York
1965
Scope and Contents
USCO and Callahan exhibited at "The Box Show" in February 1965.
box 20, folder 7
Canyon Cinema Cooperative
1964-1976
Scope and Contents
Canyon distributed "Y" on the West Coast, as well as Jud Yalkut's "Turn Turn Turn" and "Diffraction Film." File contains catalogs,
memoranda, and board minutes, but very little correspondence. See also Stanford's Canyon Cinema and Bruce Baillie collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Canyon Cinema
box 20, folder 8
Castalian Foundation/Alpert/Leary/Metzner
1963-1980
Scope and Contents
USCO collaborated with the Castalian Foundation for Psychedelic Research at the "Psychedelic Explorations" program at the
New Theatre in New York City, and also presented at their Millbrook headquarters. Correspondence is all from 1964. File also
includes related material on the International Federation for Internal Freedom, Psychedelic Review magazine, Richard Alpert
and Timothy Leary.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
Ram Das
Metzner, Ralph
box 20, folder 9
David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles
1963-1965
box 20, folder 10
Diffraction Company/Remson Wood
1964-1968, 1979
Scope and Contents
The Diffraction Company was run by Remson "Rem" Wood and his wife in Maryland; they produced diffraction grating whose optical
properties were popularized for artistic purposes by USCO and others. File contains mostly correspondence, with some samples
and promotional material.
box 20, folder 11
Drop City
circa 1967
Scope and Contents
Contains a letter from Curly Benson to Steve Durkee asking for bread ("Dion Wright and Bob Dreyfuss were just here"), two
undated collage fliers, and a copy of El Moro Vol.II no.1 "The Drop City Newsletter."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Drop City (Colo. : Commune)
box 20, folder 12
Stephen Durkee
undated
Scope and Contents
artist, co-founder of USCO. all dated correspondence interfiled in USCO correspondence. Many notes. He is now known as Abdullah
Nooruddeen Durkee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nooruddeen_Durkee)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Dūrkī, ʻAbd Allāh Nūr al-Dīn
box 4, folder 3
Stephen Durkee (oversize material)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Dūrkī, ʻAbd Allāh Nūr al-Dīn
box 21, folder 1
Barbara Durkee
undated
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Greer, Asha
box 21, folder 3
E.A.T. (Experiments in Art & Technology)
1967-1969
Scope and Contents
USCO worked with E.A.T. on a few projects, including the Pepsi-Cola Expo Pavilion Design Group 1968-1969 which includes memoranda,
design photos, and a copy of Expo '70 News v.3 n.6 1968. File also contains several newsletters: EAT News newsletters v.1
n.3 (11/1/67), v.1 n.4, v.2 n.1 ; EAT Operations and Information no.1, 2, 4 1968-1969 ; EAT Bay Area no.5, 6 1969 ; EAT
Boston v.1 n.2 1968 (became Art & Technology, Inc.) 1968-1969.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Experiments in Art and Technology (Organization)
box 21, folder 4
Film-Makers' Cooperative/Film-Maker's Cinematique/Anthology Film Archives
1964-67, 1976, circa 2000
Scope and Contents
Contains memoranda, accounting notes, correspondence with Jonas Mekas and others mostly concerning the distribution and screening
of USCO films. Included are fliers, programs, press releases for events such as John Brockman's New Cinema Festival, Piero
Heliczer 's"The Last Rite," Kenneth Dewey and Terry Riley's "Sames," and the much later USCO Resurrection screening at Anthology
circa 2000. There is also material on Ed Emshwiller and the London Film Maker's Collective.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Film-Makers' Cooperative
Film-Makers' Cinematheque
box 21, folder 5
Howard Wise Gallery, New York
1966-1968
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and promotional material on shows including Festival of Lights and Lights in Orbit, the latter of which exhibited
"Diffraction Hex" along with art by Paul Williams, Chris Sidenius, Richard Aldcroft, Otto Piene, Nam June Pak, Jackie Cassen/Rudi
Stern and others. See also Howard Wise and Experimental Intermedia files in ISC series.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Howard Wise Gallery
box 21, folder 6
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1967
box 21, folder 7
Intermedia '68
1966-1968
Scope and Contents
Series of multimedia events throughout New York state sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts and the National
Council on the Arts and managed by John Brockman Associates. USCO presented "Ten-foot Fanflashtic." Includes correspondence,
memoranda, funding & foundation material, "A Report on Intermedia" by Brockman and Stern/JBA, and publicity photographs of
Stern, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Carolee Schneemann, Allan Kaprow, Nam June Pak, etc.
box 21, folder 8
Jewish Museum, New York
circa 1965
Scope and Contents
See also ISC series.
box 21, folder 9
Kutsher's Country Club, Monticello, New York
1965
box 21, folder 10
M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1965-1972
Scope and Contents
USCO presented "Hubbub in December 1965 in a program sponsored by Paul Lee. There are also letters from and about Fenno Hoffman,
Jon K. Rosenthal, Italo Scanga, and Harold Edgerton. Stern also screened films there in 1972.
box 23, folder 10
Maverick Systems
1966-1970
box 21, folder 11
Milwaukee Art Center
1968
box 21, folder 12
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1966-1967
box 21, folder 13
Moog
1966
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from Bob Moog of R.A. Moog Co., mostly re: Stern possibly brokering the sale of a theremin to Sal Yanovsky
of the band Lovin' Spoonful. Michael Callahan had first met Moog at an Audio Engineering Society conference. Also includes
a 1964 Moog catalog and a card from sales rep Barry Ober with the inscription "Steve Reich says hi."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Moog, Bob (Robert)
box 21, folder 14
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964-1966
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Peter Seltz, William "Bill" Seitz, and others.
box 21, folder 15
Oberlin College, Ohio
1966-1967
Scope and Contents
USCO presented "We Are All One" as part of a 1967 conference on drugs sponsored by the Oberlin YMCA and the National Student
Association. Includes correspondence, clippings, photo, etc.
box 21, folder 16
Rhode Island School of Design
1965-1966
Scope and Contents
USCO presented "Hubbub" and "Now Ow Ow" through the RISD Museum of Art and the help of Fenno Hoffman and Italo Scanga. See
also Blockprint (student newspaper with articles and reviews) in clippings file.
box 21, folder 17
Riverside Museum, New York
1965-1969
Scope and Contents
USCO's "Down by the Riverside" in 1966 was one of their largest and popular productions. Includes many design notes, some
of which are by Steve Durkee.
box 21, folder 18
University of Rochester, New York
1964
Scope and Contents
Presented "Verbal American Landscape III" in 1964.
box 21, folder 19
Rolf Nelson, Rolf Nelson Gallery
1963-1965
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Rolf G. Nelson, mostly before his own gallery, including work with the Dilexi Gallery in Los Angeles and
San Francisco.
box 22, folder 8
Seymour Schweber
1965-1968
Scope and Contents
Founder of Schweber Electronics, a specialist in the distribution of semi-conductors, connectors and other electronic components.
box 22, folder 9
Scott Paper Company
1966-1967
Scope and Contents
USCO's most commercial project, and one that would ultimately contribute to its fracture, was developing marketing for a feminine
hygiene product called Confidet made by Scott Paper. John Brockman was involved in brokering the deal. USCO had approached
Scott earlier with a proposal for psychedelic paper towels.
box 22, folder 10
Sister Magdalen Mary
1964
Scope and Contents
USCO (actually Stern and Callahan) built a poem-sculpture called "Resurrection" for two nuns at the Convent of the Immaculate
Heart in Los Angeles, Sisters Magdalene Mary and Mary Corita.
box 22, folder 11
St. Cloud State College
1966-1967
box 22, folder 12
State University of New York at Buffalo
1965-1966
box 22, folder 13
strobe machine specs & sales
1965-1968
Scope and Contents
Stern and Callahan formed the independent company Maverick Systems to design and market strobe lights and other devices. Includes
correspondence with Bertrand "Bud" Goldberg, Ed Billowitz, Terry Flood/Flood & Lemm, Inc., Bill Hutton, The Surf, Nantasket
Beach, and Robert Kragen, Morning Light Co. Related correspondence can be found elsewhere in USCO. See also Maverick Systems
file.
box 23, folder 1
Walker Art Center
1967-1968
box 23, folder 2
University of Washington
1963-1964
box 23, folder 3
Whitney Museum of American Art
1968
box 23, folder 4
Woodstock Artist Association/Woodstock Art Gallery
Scope and Contents
handbills and press releases. USCO was loosely affiliated, and exhibited "Fourthreetwoone." See also clippings.
box 23, folder 5
The World/Michael Myerberg
1966-1968
Scope and Contents
USCO created a multi-media installation including lights, strobes, and taped music for a Long Island discotheque, originally
called Murray The K's World with the promotional backing of the noted radio personality, but later known as The World when
he left the project. Financial backing was by noted theatrical producer Michael Myerberg. Includes publicity, slide, film
& music lists, notes, accounting, correspondence, etc.
box 23, folder 6
Y
1963-1964
Scope and Contents
Notes, etc. concerning the 1963 experimental film by Gerd Stern and Ivan Majdrakoff with soundtrack assistance by Michael
Callahan. See also files on Majdrakoff, distributors Film-makers' Cinematique & Canyon Cinema, and elsewhere in the USCO series.
Box 153
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
Not all USCO. Includes Lanou Davenport Easter Concert '68, Ghost Rev, Steve Durkee, Oregon At Show 2/69, No Ow Now produced
WGBH 5/9/73, Lovin' Spoonful, Verbal American Landscape, etc.
box 16, folder 1
Interview transcripts with correspondence
Scope and Contents
undated, partial. Stern, Gundy, Callahan. conducted by DW David Weinrib. July 20. from tapes
Michel Oren, National Museum of American Art 1988-1989
correspondence and draft of interview with Stern and Callahan 8/19/1988
also letter from Judi to Stern
box 16, folder 3
Collages, letterheads, ephemera
box 16, folder 4
"Take the Ow..." notebook
box 16, folder 5
Church guestbook
1966-1967
box 16, folder 7
Receipts, invoices, logbooks, etc.
box 16, folder 8
Draft proposals, press releases, memoranda, lists, etc.
box 16, folder 9
Drawings & schematics - electronic poem sculptures
box 16, folder 10
Projector control circuitry
1964-1965
box 16, folder 12
Notes, mostly Stern undated
box 23, folder 7
Miscellaneous gallery correspondence, etc.
1962-1963, 1965
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, check stubs, and correspondence to and from Martha Jackson, John Weber/DWAN Gallery, Ivan Carp/Castelli, Irving
Blum/Ferus Gallery, Bolles Gallery (with handbill), Quay Gallery in Tiburon, and Maverick Gallery 1965. Some more about Stern's
own art than USCO creations.
box 23, folder 8
Miscellaneous gallery correspondence, etc.
1979-1991
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, publicity, clippings, etc. mostly about Thorpe Intermedia Gallery in Sparkill, New York and director Adele
Myers. As the Intermedia Foundation was its parent organization, this could very well be filed under Intermedia, but one of
their main shows was an USCO/ISC retrospective in 1979 (press kit enclosed). Also involved with "Sound's Sound" show in 1986.
There are also board meeting minutes from 1987 and a 1991 newsletter announcing the gallery's closure.
box 23, folder 9
USCO on fliers, programs etc.
Scope and Contents
Includes the following (See also Poster series):
Original Great Springout, New York flier 4/15/68
Veterans and Reservists to End the War in Vietnam march flier "Saturday November 5th" (advertises Ginsberg, Snyder, Krassner,
Fugs, USCO)
Convocation Vernal Equinox, Mystic Arts World, Laguna Beach flier 3/20/69 (with Dion Wright, etc.)
Verbal American Landscape 2, Wisconsin Union Theater flier
East Hampton Gallery, "The Visionaries" PR
Festival of the Arts, OSU-Lima program ("We Are All One" 5/23)
"The Deer Park" program ("Electronic tote board designed by USCO")
"Lenny" play with multimedia PR ("Media Gerd Stern, Music Charles Lloyd")
Without & Within/Confederate Memorial Day program, Action Theatre 6/8/65 (USCO listed among fellow travelers)
box 69, folder 2
Oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes the following: "Destruction" at Bella Union Theatre, San Francisco flier ; University of British Columbia Festival
of Centemporary Arts '64 poster (Verbal American Landscape, etc.) ; "One-Two-Three-Fourever" lecture at Harvard Carpenter
Center for Visual Arts 1972 (has metal printing plate stuck to it) ; Sounds' Sound at Thorpe Intermedia Gallery (Stern/Callahan
Verbal American Landscape, etc.) ; photoreproductions of Riverside Musuem "Down by the Riverside" poster ; Kresge Auditorium
plans ; Montreal plans, etc. See also Poster series.
box 69, folder 1
Painted plastic disc, probably for light show
Scope and Contents
Bent in half, very fragile
Series 5. Intermedia Systems Corporation (ISC)
Scope and Contents
"George Litwin, who is the guy who has gotten me the appointment, and Andre Ruedi said, 'We didn't just bring you up here
to do this thing at Harvard. What we want to do is we want to form a company, and we're going to do multimedia productions,
and we're going to make multimedia equipment.' Michael Callahan and I and these two guys and later on other people formed
a corporation, Intermedia Systems Corporation, and we rent a space with an office, a media production facility, and an electronics
shop."
-Stern, Gerd. "From Beat Scene Poet to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978, Interviews Conducted
by Victoria Morris Byerly in 1996"
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt409nb28g
Unlike USCO, Intermedia maintained formal office files, including files for clients, vendors, consultants, projects, legal
& accounting. For the most part, their arrangement has been retained. In addition, a very large portion of the ISC series
consists of slides used in various projects; those in carousels have been rehoused with order retained. There are slides for
projects with no corresponding paper files. There are also many slide cases labeled "outs" or "duplicate," although some would
appear not to be. Lids have been mixed up or recycled, and labels are brief or likely incorrect in some cases. Also, many
slides were exposed to moisture and may be damaged.
5.1 Correspondence, chronological
Scope and Contents
Both internal and external correspondence with copies of most outgoing. Also includes memoranda, notes, charts, and related
material. Much of this is related to files in the projects grouping.
box 24, folder 2
Correspondence
January-April 1969
box 24, folder 3
Correspondence
May-December 1969
box 24, folder 4
Correspondence
January-February 1970
box 24, folder 5
Correspondence
March-April 1970
box 24, folder 6
Correspondence
May-June 1970
box 24, folder 7
Correspondence
July-September 1970
box 24, folder 8
Correspondence
October-December 1970
box 25, folder 1
Correspondence
January-April 1971
box 25, folder 2
Correspondence
May-June 1971
box 25, folder 3
Correspondence
July-December 1971
box 25, folder 4
Correspondence
January-March 1972
box 25, folder 5
Correspondence
April-May 1972
box 25, folder 6
Correspondence
June-July 1972
box 25, folder 7
Correspondence
August-December 1972
box 25, folder 8
Correspondence
January-February 1973
box 25, folder 9
Correspondence
March-May 1973
box 25, folder 10
Correspondence
June-October 1973
box 25, folder 11
Correspondence
November-December 1973
box 26, folder 1
Correspondence
January-April 1974
box 26, folder 2
Correspondence
May-June 1974
box 26, folder 3
Correspondence
July-August 1974
box 26, folder 4
Correspondence
September-December 1974
box 26, folder 5
Correspondence
January-February 1975
box 26, folder 6
Correspondence
March-April 1975
box 26, folder 7
Correspondence
May-June 1975
box 26, folder 8
Correspondence
July-August 1975
box 26, folder 9
Correspondence
September-October 1975
box 26, folder 10
Correspondence
November 1975
box 26, folder 11
Correspondence
December 1975
box 27, folder 1
Correspondence
January-February 1976
box 27, folder 2
Correspondence
March-May 1976
box 27, folder 3
Correspondence
June-July 1976
box 27, folder 4
Correspondence
August-September 1976
box 27, folder 5
Correspondence
November-December 1976
box 27, folder 6
Correspondence
January-February 1977
box 27, folder 7
Correspondence
March-May 1977
box 27, folder 8
Correspondence
June-September 1977
box 28, folder 1
Correspondence
October-December 1977
box 28, folder 2
Correspondence
January-February 1978
box 28, folder 3
Correspondence
March-April 1978
box 28, folder 4
Correspondence
May-August 1978
box 28, folder 5
Correspondence
September-December 1978
box 28, folder 7
Correspondence, notes, etc.
undated
5.2 Projects & people
Scope and Contents
With a few exceptions added later, this is ISC's main files and folder order.
box 96
1-2-3-4ever slides
May 1973
box 43, folder 7
America the Beautiful
1971-1978
Scope and Contents
Bruce Dowling, Nanine Bilski. See also ATB file (Stern was on Board)
box 98
America the Beautiful slides
box 43, folder 8
American Speaker Systems, Inc.
1982
box 43, folder 9
Appel, Doris & Bernard
1975-1976
Scope and Contents
Doris was a sculptor. ISC placed American Medicine sculptures at the Boston Museum of Science.
box 43, folder 10
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
1971-1976
Scope and Contents
"Tunnel in the Desert" exhibit
box 44, folder 1
Armco Steel Corp.
1975-1976
Scope and Contents
Offshore Technology Conference etc.
box 99, Box 100
Armco slides
Scope and Contents
National Supply, Marion, Sand Springs, Gainsville, Butler, Baltimore, Ambridge, Hamilton Middletown Works, Houston, Zanesville,
Community, Venezuela, Ashland, Kansas City, RISD, etc.
box 44, folder 2
Army Corps of Engineers
1977
Scope and Contents
Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Hydroelectric project brochure/exhibit
box 44, folder 3
ARP Instruments/Tonus
1971-1973, 1976
Scope and Contents
synthesizer manufacturer, a division of Tonus, Inc. Marvin Cohen, etc.
box 44, folder 4
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Inc.
1974-1976
Scope and Contents
president Ed Lynch. Newsletters, memos, one letter from Stern
box 44, folder 5
Astrodine Systems
1969
Scope and Contents
space-themed restaurant franchise, interested in domes, "space light module" projections. Later named National Communications
Group.
box 44, folder 7
Berks, Robert
1973-1981
Scope and Contents
Sculptor. Mostly re: David Weinrib, Gather Ye Flowers proposal, MITRE Corp., Vepco. Includes Bios, contact sheets. No letters
from Berks
box 44, folder 8
Beth Hatefutsoth
1973-1978
Scope and Contents
Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel. Design notes, scripts, etc.
box 44, folder 9
Boston Neighborhood Business Association
1977
Scope and Contents
City of Boston project
box 44, folder 11
Bove & Charmoy (law firm)
1976-1978
box 44, folder 12
Brailsford, Larry
1969-1971
box 45, folder 1
Brockman, John
1968-1988
Scope and Contents
See also USCO, personal files
box 45, folder 2
Brockman/Intermedia Artists Corporation
1968-1988
Scope and Contents
see also Intermedia '68 etc. in USCO
box 45, folder 4
Caicos/Global Village
1969
Scope and Contents
Carribean Global Village was real estate development in Turks & Caicos Islands, organized by Herbert Harrington. ISC responsible
for "concept, marketing, enivornmental development." Project never came to fruition.
box 45, folder 5
Caicos/Global Village
1970
box 45, folder 6
Caicos/Global Village - printed material & negatives
box 45, folder 7
Caicos/Global Village - land development
Scope and Contents
Includes original maps and sketches.
box 45, folder 8
Caicos/Global Village - billing & expenses
box 45, folder 9
Caicos/Global Village - agreements, proposals, notes
box 46, folder 1
Caicos/Global Village - investors/stock offers
box 46, folder 2
Caicos/Global Village - working view master
Scope and Contents
(original of proposal, contains art possibly by Alton Kelley)
box 130
Caicos/Global Village slides
box 46, folder 3
Calloway, Dayton
1975-1977
Scope and Contents
Subcontracted as representative in the Midwest. mostly re: Armco, 360 degree theater
box 46, folder 4
Capa, Cornell
1973-1975
Scope and Contents
International Center of Photography, International Fund for Concerned Photography
box 131
Capa/International Fund for Concerned Photographers slides
Scope and Contents
Cornel Capa/Jerusalem City of Mankind with three audio reels
box 46, folder 5
Center for Understanding Media seminar
1970
box 46, folder 6
Central Maine Power
1972-1974
Scope and Contents
Maine Yankee Atomic Power Information Center
box 46, folder 8
Charter Industries, Inc.
1976-1978
Scope and Contents
North Carolina geodesic dome builders, related to Synergetics. See also Venezuela files.
box 46, folder 10
Columbia Pictures
1971-1972
Scope and Contents
re: "A Safe Place" etc.
box 46, folder 11
Commercial Union Assurance Co.
1978
box 47, folder 1
Denver Earth Exposition
1970, 1972, 1974
Scope and Contents
Mel Lawrence, Earth Expositions, Inc. Scheduled for 1972 but was cancelled.
box 47, folder 2
Dror, Yehezkel
1975-1976, 1983
box 47, folder 3
Durkee, Barbara / Lama Foundation
1972
Scope and Contents
also Berklee Johnson, re: pressing record of mantras.
box 47, folder 4
Eames Office
1970-1977
Scope and Contents
ISC loaned equipment for Eames Norton lectures.Most correspondence is with Alex Funke. Includes one brief letter from Charles
Eames.
box 47, folder 5-6
EDA Indian Reservation project
1973
Scope and Contents
Economic Development Administration (EDA), part of Department of Commerce. Planning/Economic Development on reservations.
Recommendations for audiovisual programs, scripts & treatments.
box 47, folder 7
Ehrenreich Photo-Optical / Nikon
1974-1976
Scope and Contents
Ira Shapiro, Richard LoPino, Ehrenreich Photo-Optical Industries, Inc.
box 47, folder 8
Farrington, Richard (landlord)
1978-1979
box 47, folder 9
Faverman, Mark/Boston Visual Arts Union
1974-1979
box 47, folder 10
Federal Design Assembly
1974
Scope and Contents
Second conference, September 1974. ISC produced "This Is the Federal Court" via NEA.
box 103
Federal Design Assembly slides
box 105
Federal Railroad Administration slides
box 47, folder 12
Football Training Films, Ltd.
1976-1980
box 48, folder 1
Football Training Films, Ltd.
1976-1980
box 48, folder 2
Freeman, Don/Archimedia
1972-1977
box 48, folder 3
Friedberg, M. Paul
1975-1976
box 48, folder 4-5
Goldstein, Sunny
1973-1978
Scope and Contents
Sungold Marketing Corp., Video Product Exposure, Inc. Involved with National Tobacco Distributors project, also Dannon Frozen
Yogurt, etc. Some legal material.
box 48, folder 6
Gorewitz, Rubin
1968-1976
Scope and Contents
Accountant, active with artists rights.
box 106
Harry's American Bar slides
box 48, folder 7
Harvard Business School Case Studies
1966-1968
box 48, folder 8
Harvard Institute in Arts Administration
1975, 1977
Scope and Contents
Class material
box 107
Harvard slides
Scope and Contents
Historical, Current/70s, Social Commentary, Outs, Dups, Graphics, Alden-Merthon, Student Show, HBSS, Live, Copy Stand, Harvard
Square, MMSM/Managing Motivation, Climate Rhythms, Humana
box 108
Harvard/N-Ach (Need for Achievement) slides
box 48, folder 9
Hatfield, William/Hatfield & Associates
1975, 1977
Scope and Contents
Mostly reports on educational television
box 49, folder 1-2
Hatfield, William/Hatfield & Associates
1975, 1977
Scope and Contents
Mostly reports on educational television
box 49, folder 3-4
Hockey Scene
1971-1983
Scope and Contents
Nelson Goodman, Harvard philosophy professor. Multimedia theater/dance work. Martha Armstrong Gray, choreographer.
box 49, folder 6
Humana
1971-1972
Scope and Contents
ISC subsidiary founded by George Litwin.
box 50, folder 1
International Design Conference in Aspen
1976
Scope and Contents
Stern presented "Flip Flop." See also Stern writing series.
box 104
International Design Conference in Aspen- Flip-Flop slides
box 50, folder 2
International Underwater Explorers Society ( UNEXSO)
1976
Scope and Contents
1970 Press release announcing Intermedia as new co-owner with Litwin as VP. Also includes copy of 1962 Fathom magazine.
box 123, Box 124, Box 125, Box 126
UNEXCO/Underwater Exploration slides
box 109
Jewish Museum slides
Scope and Contents
Lower East Side show, D-9 demo, etc.
box 50, folder 3
Kamen, Michael/New York Rock Ensemble
1972, 1975-1977
box 50, folder 4
Kamstra, Abrash, Dickerson & Associates (architects)
1971-1976
box 50, folder 5
Katz, Karl
1969-1979
Scope and Contents
Jewish Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art. See also Yeshiva.
box 50, folder 6
Kieronski, Robert
1970-1974
Scope and Contents
Consultant, developed K-3 hardware.
box 50, folder 7
Kings Island/Expo-America
1975-1976
Scope and Contents
William C. Price, marketing director
box 50, folder 8
Kodak
1969-1980
Scope and Contents
Kodak also in USCO series (interfiled)
box 50, folder 9
Krieger, Jesse/J.J. Krieger & Co. (accountants)
1970-1973
box 51, folder 1-2
Landscape Architecture magazine
1972-1976
Scope and Contents
editor Grady Clay. Stern wrote book reviews. Proposal for film version of Clay's book "Close Up: How to Read the American
City"
box 51, folder 3
Leary, Timothy
1969-1970, 1976
Scope and Contents
Recorded at Intermedia August 1969 for Douglas label. Contains itinerary and clippings ; Copies of letters of support from
Stern, Litwin & Weil ; Stern to Leary 1976 ; notes ; photo negatives and contact strips. See also Castalia file in USCO.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
box 51, folder 4
Lee, Paul
1967-1976
Scope and Contents
See also USCO.
box 51, folder 5
Lee, Tom/Thomas H. Lee Company
1974-1979
box 52, folder 1
Lincoln Sites project
1974-1975
Scope and Contents
"Lincoln's Thought & The Present" NEH grant-funded project run by Professor Chuck Strozier of Sangamon State University, Springfield,
Illinois. ISC produced presentations, film, pamphlets. Also involved were Geoffrey Ward, Gillian Anderson, others.
box 52, folder 2-3
Lincoln Sites project
1976
box 52, folder 4-5
Lincoln Sites project
1977
box 52, folder 6
Lincoln Sites project - Lincoln Historical Society, museums correspondence
1977
box 52, folder 7
Lincoln Sites project
1978
box 52, folder 8
Lincoln Sites project
1979
box 53, folder 1
Lincoln Sites project - undated notes & meeting transcripts
box 53, folder 2
Lincoln Sites project - equipment
box 53, folder 3
Lincoln Sites project - pamphlet drafts
box 53, folder 4
Lincoln Sites project - photographs
box 53, folder 5
Lincoln Sites project - research
box 53, folder 6
Lincoln Sites project - unidentified script
box 53, folder 7
Lincoln Sites project - law offices scripts
box 54, folder 1
Lincoln Sites project - courtroom scripts
box 54, folder 2
Lincoln Sites project - New Salem film scripts & production notes
box 54, folder 3
Lincoln Sites project - depot scripts
box 54, folder 4
Lincoln Sites project - NEH proposals
box 55
Lincoln Sites project - academic papers (unfoldered)
box 110, Box 111
Lincoln Sites project slides
box 56, folder 1
Lovelight/Laser Magic
1975-1976
box 56, folder 2
Lovelight/Laser Magic
1977
box 56, folder 3
Lovelight/Laser Magic
1978-1987
box 56, folder 4
Lovelight/Laser Magic - printed material
box 56, folder 5-6
Lovelight/Laser Magic - scripts, etc.
box 56, folder 7
Lovelight/Laser Magic - storyboards
box 51, folder 6
Mahoney, Weiss & Brock (law firm)
box 51, folder 7
Marsh, Ken / Woodstock Community Video
box 51, folder 8
McBer & Company
1969-1975
Scope and Contents
Boston, William Le Clere, Behavioral Science Center, David McClelland. ISC produced "Effects of Achievement Motivation Training"
film.
box 51, folder 9
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo
1975-1979
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re: video exhibition. See also Venezuela files.
box 57, folder 1
Museum of the American China Trade
1975-1976
Scope and Contents
"Boston & The Sea" film. New England Aquarium
box 57, folder 2
Museum of the American China Trade
Scope and Contents
research, scripts, notes, photographs
box 131, Box 132
Museum of the American China Trade slides
box 57, folder 3
Museum of Contemporary Crafts
1969, 1970, 1975
box 57, folder 4
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1969-1975
box 57, folder 5
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975-1978
box 57, folder 6
National Association of Tobacco Dealers/Distributors
1974-1975
box 57, folder 7
National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET)
1973-1975
Scope and Contents
KQED, Paul Kaufman, executive director. Warner Jepson was composer-in-residence.
box 58, folder 1
National Council of Negro Women
1973-1976
Scope and Contents
ISC were contracted to film the dedication of the Mary McLeod Bethune Monument in Washington D.C.
box 58, folder 2
National Endowment for the Arts
1972-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes Federal Design and other conference material. More on NEA elsewhere too.
box 58, folder 3
New American Library
1975
box 58, folder 4-6
New England Electric System
1970-1978
Scope and Contents
Bear Creek Pumped Storage Project Visitor Center ; Narragansett Nuclear Power Station Nuclear Information Center, Charleston,
Rhode Island 1975
box 113
New England Electric System slides
Scope and Contents
6 in a Day, Bear Swamp, Deerfield, Reddy Kilowatt
box 58, folder 7
New England Research Associates (NERA)
Scope and Contents
Carl D. Orio, John Simms
box 58, folder 8
New York State Council on the Arts
1970-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes Giorno Dial-a-Poem application 1975. See also Planning Corporation for the Arts, Ken Dewey
box 58, folder 9
Niese, Henry
1970-1971
Scope and Contents
NEH application for "The Aliens" documentary on outlaw motorcycle gang.
box 58, folder 10
O'Grady, Gerard / Center for Media Studies (SUNY Buffalo)
box 58, folder 11
Opera Today magazine
1970, 1973
box 58, folder 12
Pablo Light Show
1968, 1971-1972
Scope and Contents
Pat Firpo, Pablo Media Artists & Technicians. See also USCO.
box 59, folder 1
Park-McCullough House (Bennington, Vermont)
1976-1977
box 59, folder 2-3
Planning Corporation for the Arts
1971
Scope and Contents
Ken Dewey, executive director. Anne Wadsworth. Stern chairman of Artists in Society Committee, reports to NY State Council
on the Arts. Includes prospectus, board minutes, reports, Stern interview 1971. See also NY State Council on the Arts.
box 59, folder 4
Poets & Writers
1973-1975
Scope and Contents
Galen Williams
box 59, folder 5
Porett, Thomas D.
1969-1978
Scope and Contents
Philadelphia College of Art film/video artist and teacher. Re: "Made in USA," etc.
box 59, folder 6
Quincy School, Boston
1974-1976
Scope and Contents
Through The Architects Collaborative (TAC), artist Maria Termini created a "Mural art frieze of porcelain enamel steel panels"
on the exterior of the school. Also includes Quincy School poetry book c.1978.
box 59, folder 7
Rimberg, June & Felix
1970-1976
Scope and Contents
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., real estate marketing
box 59, folder 9
Rockefeller Foundation
Scope and Contents
Video/cable/educational television proposals, including "Experimental Television Centers and the Universities: the NCET Project"
1974
box 60, folder 1
Rockefeller Foundation
Scope and Contents
Video/cable/educational television proposals, including "Experimental Television Centers and the Universities: the NCET Project"
1974
box 60, folder 2-3
Ryan, Paul
undated, 1983, 2001
Scope and Contents
Graduate Media Studies faculty, New School. script treatments, clippings, etc.
box 60, folder 4
Schachter, Zalman
Scope and Contents
Recorded "7 Beggars of Reb Nalman/Torah of the Void" at Intermedia, released and distributed by Intermedia. See also Intermedia
Sound/Recording, Jewish series.
box 60, folder 5
Schneider, Bert
1971-1977, 1983
Scope and Contents
BBS Productions with Bob Rafelson. Re: " A Safe Place," Huey Newton, etc. See also USCO.
box 60, folder 6
Schweber, Seymour
1966-1976
Scope and Contents
Schweber Electronics. "The Tip Off on Components From Schweber" 1966-67, other promotional material, including offprints of
Schweber's column in Electronic News. See also USCO.
box 60, folder 7
Sea Pines Plantation Company
1969
Scope and Contents
Hilton Head, South Carolina. Proposals with William Doggrell.
box 115, Box 116, Box 117
box 60, folder 8
Segal, Joseph & Nathan
1975-1978
Scope and Contents
Musicians, recorded "Hallel" LP through Intermedia. See Intermedia Sound/Recording.
box 61, folder 1
Smithsonian Institution
1969-1978
Scope and Contents
Drug Conference 11/11/1969, William "Bill" Fitzhugh, Department of Anthropology consulted on Bear Swamp project, etc.
box 61, folder 2
Staten Island Development Center (SIDC)
1979-1980
Scope and Contents
Omar Lerman
box 119
Staten Island Development Center slides
Scope and Contents
Includes 4 audio reels and one audio cassette
box 61, folder 4
Teicholtz, Eric
1972-1976
Scope and Contents
Assistant director, Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis at Harvard. Worked on Beth Hatefutsoth project.
See also Chronological Correspondence.
box 61, folder 5
Teleportraits / Artists, Babies, Bodies
Scope and Contents
Stern video productions at WGBH
box 61, folder 6
Termini, Maria
1975, 2006-2007
Scope and Contents
Stern recommendation, emails re: Quincy mural film stored at Anthology Film Archive.
box 61, folder 7
Theodore Samet & Co.
1975, 2006-2007
Scope and Contents
Mel Shuman
box 61, folder 8-9
Transportation Safety Institute
1974, 1977
Scope and Contents
Railroad safety inspector training films, Federal Railroad Administration.
box 61, folder 10
Turning On Without Drugs (TOWD)
1970-1971
Scope and Contents
College tour. Edward Rosenfeld wrote TOWD book. Brockman Associates involved.
box 133
Turning On Without Drugs slides
box 62, folder 1-2
United States Information Agency
1971-1977
Scope and Contents
Three AV shows for exhibit, including "Technology for the American Home," also vocational videos 1971.
box 122
United States Information Agency slides
box 122
United States Transportation Agency slides
box 62, folder 3
We Are All One
1968, etc.
Scope and Contents
USCO - Intermedia
box 62, folder 4-6
Weiss, Zimmerman & Angoff (law firm)
1969-1978
box 62, folder 7
WGBH
undated, 1970-1972
Scope and Contents
Producer/director Fred Barzyk, also Dorothy Chiesa, Jock Gill, Michael Rice, Rick Hauser, Olivia Tappa, others. ISC made equipment,
recorded Bernstein lectures, Twyla Tharp, other production, graphic treatments, etc. Stern was involved as video artist with
the New Television Workshop and proposed a program on latin music called "Chévere." See also Teleportraits, etc.
box 128
WGBH slides
Scope and Contents
Busch-Reisen, Keeping Warm, Pocket Mime, Adult Education, Higgins & Hammond Museum/Castler, Armory, Aquarium, Museum of Science,
Massage, Salem, Christmas Show, Chinatown, Steve's Ice Cream, Saugus Iron Works, Twyla Tharp, Wayside Inn, Fanny Farmer, Do
It, Insomniac, Museum of Transportation, Where to Get Off
box 63, folder 2
Wiener, Hesh
1972
Scope and Contents
Artist/theorist, opened timeshare computing company Berkeley. Now tech journalist/writer.
box 63, folder 3
Wise, Howard/Eletronic Arts Intermix
1971-1977
Scope and Contents
See also Howard Wise Gallery in USCO
box 63, folder 4
Woodchuck Hollow Brass and Woodwind Choir
1972
Scope and Contents
Recorded at Intermedia, released and distributed by Intermedia too. See Intermedia Sound/Recording.
box 63, folder 5-6
Woodstock Ventures/Aquarian Exposition
1969
Scope and Contents
Woodstock Music & Art Fair August 1969. ISC proided logistical support - designed campgrounds, signage, transportation, maps.
Michael Lang, Stan Goldstein, Don Ganoung, Mel Lawrence. USCO Fanflashtic was proposed for campgrounds too (not enouigh electricity
it turned out?). Altopn Kelley was involved with signage "Stanley Mouse has joined Kelley here" 9/69. Will Wroth supervised
Hog Farmers with field prep, etc. Sturart Viddocler very active, not just accounting. Quennel/Gaffney Design Services. Contains
correspondence, memoranda, invoices, clippings, blank staff passes, site blueprints, etc.
box 69, folder 4
Woodstock newspaper clippings
1969
box 63, folder 7
Yalkut, Jud
1973-1979
Scope and Contents
Contemporary Media Study Center, Dayton, Ohio. See also USCO.
box 63, folder 8-10
Yeshiva University Museum
1971-1976
Scope and Contents
New York. Dalia Tawil, curator. Sheldon Socol, VP of Business Affairs.
box 129
Yeshiva University slides
box 63, folder 11
Zubin Shahastra Zandra
1975-1977
box 63, folder 12
Zen Center (San Francisco)
1972-1973
Scope and Contents
300 Page Street, San Francisco. Fran Keller, advice on audio recording and tape storage. See also Richard Baker file.
Box 134
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
AMA Telephone, American Savings & Loan Institute, American Women Making History, A.D. Little, Art Centers USA, Art Director's
Club of Boston, BASF "Word Processing" (with audio cassette), ASI, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Edison Energy Crisis
box 135
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
Avon Diamondopolous, CADEC, Come Visit Us, City Hall Show
box 136
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
Contrasting Lifestyles, Data Packaging Corp., Demonstrations, Delmarva
box 137
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
Dichter Program, Dymol/Xylogic Processing System, Children's Museum, Energy, Genra Grason Stadler, Ralph Guild, Green Beret,
Hands On
box 138
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
LifeSaver, VPE, Melhado & Co., Cherubini, Intervideo
box 139
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
Microwave, ODC Pepsi, Qquaker Oats, Quinnipac, Sbane
box 140
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
Intervideo, Lifesavers
box 141
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
Spindler Alignment Slides, Hugh Stubbins & Associates, Student Impact, Bill Verity, Working Party
Box 150
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
USCO T-13, T-14, T-17, T-18; one box "USCO, Gerd, T. McCan, Venezula, UNEXCO"
Box 142, Box 143, Box 144, Box 145, Box 146
Slides by subject
Scope and Contents
Includes transportation, travel, tourism, landscape, people, hospitals, supermarkets, etc. ISC & USCO labels, some stock photos,
multiple labels. Many have project numbers.
Box 150
Sampler slide show
Scope and Contents
Hands On, Lynn, Deerfield, ASI (with audio cassette)
Box 151, Box 152
ISC slides
Scope and Contents
Corporate Capability, Corporate Samplers, ISC People & Associates, various slide cases labeled only "Intermedia"
Box 154
"Gerd's Show at Carpenter Center" slides
map-folder 64
Miscellaneous oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes Aspen conference posters, Torah of the Void cover slick, Einstein notes, etc.
map-folder 65
Plans and schematics
Scope and Contents
Includes material on projects such as Arizona, Beth Hatefutsoth, Caico, & Einstein Medical Center.
5.3 Venezuela
Arrangement
Files in subject order alphabetically, followed by chronological correspondence files.
box 28, folder 9
Alfavision
undated, 1971-1975
box 88, Box 89, Box 90
Centro Simon Bolivar slides
Scope and Contents
"Para Todos Trabajamos" etc.
box 31, folder 1
Fernando Irazabal
1971-1972
box 31, folder 2
Fernando Irazabal
1973-1977
Box 91, Box 92, Box 93, Box 94, Box 95
box 32, folder 1
O.D.C. (Organizacion Diego Cisneros)
box 32, folder 5
Jose Rafael Revenga, Educatel
box 33, folder 2
Photos, Venezuela '77
1977
box 35, folder 5
Correspondence, MVM etc.
1977
map-folder 66
Venezuela/Synergetics/MVM plans
1977
Box 85
Miscellaneous slides
Scope and Contents
Includes Caracas sunsets, CSB Para Todos, Conahotu, Expozuli, Cruz Diaz, concert at Hipodromo de El Paraiso, Caracas 1/14/72
featuring Paul Pena and New York Rock Ensemble.
5.4 Intermedia Recording/Intermedia Sound
Box 155
ISC studio slides
Scope and Contents
"Session Report" with Johnson Brothers and Boston record stores, Studio 101.1 with Paul Pena and others, Pena 101.2, Roger
Powell, Woodchuck Hollow Choir & Band 143
box 41, folder 7
Fire insurance claim
1974
box 41, folder 10
John Jorda, Studio courses
1977-1978
box 41, folder 11
Reb Zalman LP sales
1974-1977
box 41, folder 12
Lovelight soundtrack, Dan Cole legal
1974-1977
box 41, folder 14
Contracts, Paul Pena
1971-1973
box 42, folder 1
Contracts & legal, Roger Powell
1972-1975
box 42, folder 2
Contracts, Charlie Mariano
1971
box 42, folder 3
Contracts & legal, Abe Laborial
1971-1973
box 42, folder 4
Weil separation agreement
1973
box 42, folder 6
Contracts, etc.
1971-1974
5.5 Administrative, personnel, etc.
Scope and Contents
Employee files are mostly undated correspondence, memoranda, and notes; more are filed under projects or in general chronological
correspondence files.
box 39, folder 2
Printed material
Scope and Contents
Forms, letterheads, promotional brochures (some with Alton Kelley art) etc.
box 39, folder 11
Osler, Bobbi (later Bobbi Carrey)
box 39, folder 12
Penaherrera, Carlos & Kathy
box 39, folder 15
Miscellaneous photographs & negatives
box 40, folder 2-3
Miscellaneous proposals etc.
box 40, folder 4
Institute for Financial Education Instructor Guidelines
5.6 Tax, stock & financial
box 38, folder 1
tax/stock/financial
undated, 1969
box 38, folder 5
tax/stock/financial
1972-1973
box 38, folder 6
tax/stock/financial
1974-1975
box 38, folder 13
tax/stock/financial
1982-1983
box 38, folder 14
tax/stock/financial
1984-1985
box 38, folder 15
tax/stock/financial
1986-1988
box 38, folder 16
tax/stock/financial
1989-1996
box 38, folder 17
tax/stock/financial - Chapter IX
5.7 Equipment & technical
box 40, folder 5
Technical manuals, schematics, notes, etc.
box 42, folder 7
Technical catalogs and manuals A-M
box 42, folder 8
Technical catalogs and manuals N-W
box 43, folder 4
Slide, tape & other listings
Box 147, Box 148, Box 149
Equipment slides
Scope and Contents
Hardware,"Media - Common Ownership" Litwin/Wroth report, Installations D-9 & D-10 ; D-10, DG-3, DG-4, K-3, R-7, E-Z Viewer,
Seth's Video Synthesizer, Video Showcase, Graphics, DAVI Systems/DAVI Booth, NAVA Show ; NAVA, SUMMA, Dissolve Show, D-9 Carousel
Series 6. Poetry & writing
Scope and Contents
See also poetry magazines etc. in "Other Publications & Clippings" file.
6.1 Poetry in Folio
Related Materials
Washington University in St. Louis holds the May Swenson Papers (MSS111), which contains some Poetry in Folio correspondence:
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/findingaids/MSS111.html
Scope and Contents
Poems in Folio was a project initiated by Stern and his then wife Ann London to publish poems in broadsheet form by fine presses
on a monthly subscription basis. While Gerd and Ann did all the coordinating, the editorial board consisted of Stanley Kunitz,
Henry Rago (editor of Poetry) and Richard Wilbur, and presses included Lawton Kennedy, Sig Sivertson, Westerham Press Ltd.,
and Mallette Dean. Ed Grabhorn (who printed a William Carlos Williams poem) had suggested using a variety. Correspondents
include Claude Fredericks, Banyan Press/Pawlet; Ward Ritchie (one or two notes); Harold Zellerbach (a major backer); Dave
Meltzer, Discovery Book Shop; Henry W. Wennings Rare Books (handled some sales 1963-64, also worked with Stern on Afterimage),
as well as most of the poets listed below. Some files only contain typescripts of poems. The Roethke file is more substantial
than others, and contains a 4/22/54 letter draft from Stern which mentions Lewis Hill, John Hoffman and Harry Partch. Some
copies were sent as gifts, and they received acknowledgements from Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and California governor
Goodwin Knight. At one point PIF had even intended to record an LP of poetry. In the end, lack of interest and the resulting
financial crisis prevented them from printing the planned twelfth poem by I.A. Richards. See also poetry correspondence files.
Please note: many of these files are water damaged and contain evidence of light mold and discoloration. The worst examples
were photocopied and removed. Many items are fragile, use care when handling.
box 10, folder 1
Administrative (by-laws, copyright, tax exemption status, etc.)
box 10, folder 2
Printed material, ads, reviews, etc.
box 10, folder 4
Correspondence
undated, 1956
box 10, folder 9
Miscellaneous poems
Scope and Contents
Robert Lowell printed poem (damaged) ; Robert Kelley signed mimeograph, mentions Stern ; Mary Stuart, signed ; one unknown,
unsigned ; Harvey Brown
box 10, folder 10
Miscellaneous poets
Scope and Contents
Poets not in PiF; most only a page or two of correspondence. Includes George Barker ; Elizabeth Bishop ; Susan MacEwan for
T.S. Eliot ; Archibald MacLeish ; William Meredith ; Delmore Schwartz ; Yvor Winters.
box 10, folder 11
W.H. Auden
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh)
box 10, folder 12
Louise Bogan
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970
box 10, folder 13
John Ciardi
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
box 10, folder 14
J.V. Cunningham
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent), 1911-1985
box 10, folder 15
Richard Eberhart
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005
box 10, folder 16
Robert Francis
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Francis, Robert, Robert, 1901-1987
box 10, folder 17
Jean Garrigue
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Garrigue, Jean, 1912-1972
box 10, folder 18
Robert Graves
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
box 10, folder 19
Katherine Hoskins
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hoskins, Katherine
box 10, folder 20
Barbara Howes
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Howes, Barbara
box 10, folder 21
Elizabeth Jennings
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001
box 10, folder 22
Kenneth Koch
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002
box 10, folder 23
James Merrill
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Merrill, James, 1926-1995
box 10, folder 24
Josephine Miles
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Miles, Josephine, 1911-1985
box 10, folder 25
Marianne Moore
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
box 10, folder 26
Howard Moss
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Moss, Howard, 1922-1987
box 10, folder 27
Howard Nemerov
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Nemerov, Howard
box 10, folder 28
F.T. Prince
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Prince, F. T. (Frank Templeton), 1912-2003
box 10, folder 29
Adrienne Rich
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
box 10, folder 30
I.A. Richards
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979
box 10, folder 31
Theodore Roethke
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Roethke, Theodore , 1908-1963
box 10, folder 32
Karl Shapiro
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000
box 10, folder 33
Louis Simpson
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Simpson, Louis, 1923-2012
box 10, folder 34
May Swenson
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Swenson, May
box 10, folder 35
Charles Tomlinson
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tomlinson, Charles, 1927-2015
box 10, folder 36
David Wagoner
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Wagoner, David
box 10, folder 37
William Carlos Williams
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
6.2 Poetry correspondence
Scope and Contents
Mostly communication with publishers and editors of literary journals as well as publishers such as Houghton Mifflin and Harper
about his poetry. Many mentions of Lamantia, McClure, and other mutual friends.
box 11, folder 2
Poetry correspondence
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes Patricia Coffin note ; from Bern Porter re: Partch, Artaud, Lamantia, Hoffman, Stern's poetry books ; to John Porter
III,
Life ; to Alan Pryce-Jones ; from Harriet Doar (friend of Abbott Fraser) ; from John Bryan,
Renaissance.
box 11, folder 3
Poetry correspondence
1952-1954
Scope and Contents
Includes Allen Ginsberg 1/7/52 and reply 2/27/53 ; Marianne Moore ; Isaac [Rosenfeld] 1953 ; to Harriet Doar 1953 ; to Lew
[Hill? Welch?] ; San Francisco State College Poetry Center announcement flier 1954.
box 11, folder 4
Poetry correspondence
1959-1962
Scope and Contents
Includes Diane di Prima & LeRoi Jones,
Floating Bear ; William Ryan,
Contact/Angel Island Publications ; Barney Rosset,
Evergreen Review ; to Denise Levertov 1961 ; Dave Haselwood, Auerhahn Press.
box 11, folder 5
Afterimage
1964-1966
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning a subscription-based book of Stern poetry published by Villiers in 1965.
box 11, folder 6
Poetry correspondence
1963-1987
Scope and Contents
Includes Diane di Prima & LeRoi Jones,
Floating Bear ; Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; to Richard Brautigan ; to Robert Creeley ; to Allen [Ginsberg] ; to John Bryan,
Renaissance ; Fred Jordan, Grove ; Lita Hornick,
Kulchur ; Ed van Aelstyn,
Northwest Review [Phillip Whalen recommended Stern as an art reporter] ; to Charles Olson 1964. Later correspondence is largely about Stern's
"Poemthink."
6.3 Stern poetry & writing
box 11, folder 8
Stern/Marga Richter, Relations Cantata notes
1950s
box 11, folder 9-11
Writing
1950s
Scope and Contents
Notes, essays, poetry, prose, diary entries, etc. Begins with a piece dating to Pinehurst, New York 1940s. Mostly annotated
typescripts, some manuscripts.
box 11, folder 12
Miscellaneous notes, transcripts, etc.
Scope and Contents
Essay, report, transcripts, etc, including Intermedia Harvard Report with McClelland and Litwin ; Philosophy of Multi-Media
1976, National Audiovisual Association Convention, Flip-Flop Remarks.
box 74, folder 9
Don't Flee the Scene Salty, Seven Stray Cats
Scope and Contents
"Don't Flee the Scene Salty" - typescript of play/puppet show cowritten by Jack Gilbert
Seven Stray Cats Reading Their Poems in Sausalito/ Poetry San Francisco Presents Seven Stray Cats in Sausalito / Jean McLean; Laura Uronovitz [Ulewicz]; Michael Grieg; Ann London; Gerd Stern, Robert Stock; Carol Christopher Drake; Jack
Gilbert.
Silkscreened cover designed by Jack Gilbert and Joan Hartmann-McLean, 17 pp. mimeographed, stapled along the top. "These sheets
have been assembled to accompany a reading at THE SAUSALITO LITTLE THEATYRE in Sausalito, February 8, 1957. They are limited
to 150 copies and do not constitute magazine publication."
box 74, folder 10
Miscellaneous writing
Scope and Contents
Note that some filed here are duplicates from elsewhere in the collection. Includes book reviews ; Flip-Flop transcript ;
annotated Stern/Grace Clements typescript - "prospectus based on outline..." ; Philosophy of Multimedia 1971 ; Media, Information,
And Then? 1974 ; McLelland/Litwin/Stern, Some Intermedia Studies in Education, etc.
Series 7. Public relations
Scope and Contents
In the late 50s and early 60s, Stern became a publicity agent ("personal management and public relations" according to a bio),
mostly representing restaurants but also a winery, a fashion designer, a real estate developer, and an author/millionaire.
His PR career intersected with his writing for Playboy and other magazines, where he was able to plug clients in his reportage.
Stern's association with Herb Caen also came in handy when it came to getting publicity. Stern was introduced to the scene
in San Francisco by Frank DiMarco, who worked for Enrico Banducci. DiMarco recommended Stern for Alexis' Tangier. Related
material can be found in other series.
box 13, folder 1
Bios/CVs/resumes/draft contracts
circa 1957
Scope and Contents
Stern's first writing job was for the New Palz Independent 9/49-12/50. One bio lists as reference Richard Emerson, Western
advertising manager for Shell Oil. He describes his PR work as largely creating "publicity releases, promotional material,
magazine writing (some ghost writing) and radio & television script material."
box 13, folder 2
Miscellaneous PR correspondence
1955-1960
Scope and Contents
Includes 8/22/55 to Keith Rockwell re: Purple Onion, Maya Angelou ; Jake Ehrlich ; Piro's ; Ty Jurras re: Mary ; Louis Gomberg
re: wineries ; Ronald M. Deutsch and Pat (writers for Redbook etc.) ; Paul Brooks, Houghton-Mifflin ; Jim Concannon and Concannon
Vineyard ; M. Galashvily ; Dr. Wendell G. Hendricks ; scrap of paper mentioning Rudy Render, Fallen Angel.
box 13, folder 3
Alexis' Tangier, Alexis Merab
1958-1960, 1964
Scope and Contents
Includes 3/58 contract ; KCBS transcript 4/32/58 ; Margaret Rice Cooper & Jane Montand, Gourmet magazine re: kulebiaka recipe
; 4/59
Playboy article ; "News From NBC" 8/14/59 transcript (damaged) ; 1960 Stern to Alexis, mentions Frank, Granat Brothers, investments
; Alexis Merabishvilli (his full name) bio drafts ; kulebiaka notes and typed recipes, undated press releases, draft of copy
for Korla Pandit record cover ; postcard & brochure ; advertisements & newspaper clippings, including writing by Herb Caen,
Paul Speegle, Dick Nolan and Harry Craft.
Michael Callahan installed and maintained a discotheque at Alexis' in the early-mid-1960s and there are some some references
in USCO and in PR clippings.
box 13, folder 4
Columbus Tower
1960
Scope and Contents
Columbus Tower is a building in San Francisco (San Francisco Designated Landmark No. 33) on Columbus Avenue at Kearny, formerly
known as the Sentinel Building. Stern wrote copy for owner Robert Moor, who had bought the building in 1957 and then began
an extensive renovation under Henrik Bull. While he appeared to want tenants at first, he ended up selling the building to
the Kingston Trio. File contains a history of the building by Stern, dtaft press release, bio notes, promotional flier, photographs,
& magazine clippings.
box 5, folder 5
Paul Hultberg P.R. drafts
circa 1962-1963
Scope and Contents
Paul and Ethel Hultberg are artists; Gerd helped Paul with drafting a letter to galleries and other promotion. With two letters
to them dated 1962.
box 13, folder 5
Jesse Lasky, Jr.
1961
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, press releases, photographs, clippings.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lasky, Jesse L., Jr., 1910-1988
box 13, folder 6
Mayacamas Vineyard
1954-1965
Scope and Contents
Leon Adams, who was the head of the California Wine Institute, went fishing with Stern and S.I. Hayakawa, and later introduced
him to Mary and Jack Taylor of Mayacamas Vineyards, located in the Mayacamas Mountains within the Napa Valley AVA bordering
Sonoma Valley. They remained friendly after Stern got out of the PR business.
Includes promotional material ; bulletins (no.2 August 1953 - no.51 May 1961) ; stock subscription information and prospectus
; bios, financial & other notes ; correspondence 1958-1965, press releases, shareholder report 1958-59 ; clippings.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mayacamas Vineyards
box 13, folder 7
Chuck Meyer-Biff Jones
1956-1958
Scope and Contents
Los Angeles songwriting team best known for "Suddenly There's A Valley." They were formerly under contract to Hill & Range
and later known as Capesana Music.
Includes 12/11/56 to Carl Haverlin, BMI also re: Partch ; 12/11/56 to Charles Wolcott, MGM ; 1/7/57 Robert B. Sour, Assistant
VP of BMI to Stern ; 11/7/57 mentions Fantasy Records list of distributors for record on "Biff" label ; 12/57 mentions Rudy
Render LP ; 8/21/58 on Valentine Records letterhead.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jones, Biff, 1930-
Meyer, Chuck
BMI (Firm)
box 13, folder 8
Sabella's of Marin
1960-1963
Scope and Contents
Angelo "Lou" Sabella, of the famed Sabella family of Fisherman's Wharf, owned a spin-off Sabella's at 633 Great Highway in
Mill Valley. Includes correspondence,
Pageant July 1963 article, with photographs by Eugene Anthony, including one of Stern.
box 13, folder 9
Charles Stark
1956-1957
Scope and Contents
Artist represented briefly by Stern whose work was at Grete Williams Gallery in San Francisco.
box 13, folder 10
Tamara
1959-1960
Scope and Contents
Tamara Yohanan was fashion designer who specialized in above-the-knee wedding dresses. Stern described himself as "business
manager." Includes correspondence, promotional material, lists, press releases, some (very damaged) photographs, and clippings.
box 13, folder 11
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
1957-1960
Scope and Contents
Signed his letters "Neil." Includes correspondence, clippings, "Vagabonding with Vanderbilt" newsletter, some mentioning Stern.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1898-1974
box 13, folder 12
Receipts - expenses, etc.
circa 1956-1961
box 4, folder 1
Miscellaneous PR clippings
Series 8. Journalism
Scope and Contents
A natural outgrowth of Stern's public relations ventures, Stern's journalistic writing included uncredited articles for
Holiday, Coronet, Life, and possibly other magazines. Material on Stern's
Playboy (and related
Show Business International) writing is in a separate series.
box 14, folder 1
Jane Kronholtz
1959-1963, 1965, 1974
Scope and Contents
Stern's literary agent.
box 14, folder 2
Gunther Stuhlman
1962-1963
Scope and Contents
Hinshaw & Stulmann, literary agents.
box 14, folder 3
Miscellaneous short works - typescript drafts
1958-1959
Scope and Contents
Includes lentil potage recipe ; "The Spliced Playmate" 8/58 Stern/[Howie] Becker ; "Just Barge Right In: Party Thoughts of
a Confirmed Bargee" 9/7/58 (see also barge files) ; "Article Topic Suggestion: The Gentleman Vintner" 1959 ; Ted Streshinsky
bio ; Tod Berlant press release (last two are PR)
box 14, folder 4
Cavalier magazine/travel/Florida
1962
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence 2-3/62 (some with editor Frederic A. Birmingham) ; article drafts as sent to Jane Kronholtz including
"Water Water Everywhere" & "Tampa No, Cuba Si?"
box 14, folder 5
"A Good Cigar Is a Smoke" article
1961
Scope and Contents
Includes draft of article "A Good Cigar Is a Smoke" ; correspondence March 1961 ; clippings ; 3 photographs of cigar factory
by Tampa News Bureau ; photocopy of uncredited
Playboy Vol.12 no.10 October 1965 article on cigars titled "The Cherished Cheroot" probably based on Stern's original article.
Series 9. Playboy magazine
Scope and Contents
Playboy magazine had approached Herb Caen initially with the idea of a column, but Caen was not interested in writing without a byline
and recommended Stern to his friend A.C. "Spec" Spectorsky, the associate publisher responsible for the magazine's literary
merits until his death in the early 1970s.
Playboy was then more of a men's lifestyle magazine, and Stern wrote several travel and leisure articles as a continuing feature
called "On The Town." Naturally, he covered San Francisco first (drawing on his many PR contacts), followed by pieces on New
Orleans, Las Vegas, and Acapulco. He also wrote a little for the short-lived affiliate
Show Business Iillustrated.
The majority of correspondence here is between Stern and Spectorsky. Other letters involve Hugh Hefner, associate editor Jack
Kessie, photo editor Vincent T. Tajiri, personnel director (and Spec's wife) Theo, artist LeRoy Neiman (one letter from 1958),
SBI senior editors Marvin Barnett & Don Gold, SBI associate editor Sheldon Wax, as well as a few between Spec and Caen. There
are also a few internal memos. While all correspondence has been sorted in chronological files, material on the articles has
been arranged alphabetically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
Spectorsky, A. C. (Auguste C)
box 14, folder 6
Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings, draft bio of Spectorsky, Playboy letterhead and envelope.
box 14, folder 7
Correspondence
undated, 1957-1958
Scope and Contents
Includes 12/31/57 proposal for On The Town article on San Francisco ; 2/27/58 Hefner response ; 8/58 proposes Monterey Jazz
Festival ; 10/58 New Orleans assignment
box 14, folder 11
Acapulco article
1960
Scope and Contents
Includes clipping ; correspondence ; typescript draft ; Playboy vol.7 no.11 1960 issue.
box 14, folder 12
Enrico Banducci article (SBI)
1961
Scope and Contents
typescript draft
box 14, folder 13
Las Vegas article
1960
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence ; typescript draft ; notes.
box 14, folder 14
Articles: The Library, Monterey & The Big Sur Coast
Scope and Contents
The Library: includes review/hype piece of bar at 951 Clement St., San Francisco with typescript draft ; notes ; promotional
brochure -- Monterey & The Big Sur Coast: includes typescript draft and correspondence including to Bill Fassett, Nepenth
box 14, folder 15
New Orleans article
1960
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, including note from Truman Capote re: nightlife ; typescript draft ; notes.
box 14, folder 16
San Francisco article
1958
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript draft ; Playboy vol.5 no.6 June 1958 clipping.
box 14, folder 17
Joe Williams article
1961
Scope and Contents
Profiles appearance by jazz singer in March 1961 "Acts and Entertainment" column with two typescript drafts & clipping.
Series 10. Music
Scope and Contents
See also Meyer & Jones in PR files, KPFA under Lew Hill in Correspondence by Name series. There is also music-related material
in USCO and Intermedia, especially the latter. Two San Francisco psychedelic rock music handbills were used as letters, both
in USCO.
box 12, folder 1
Correspondence, etc. - jazz
1954-1982
Scope and Contents
Mostly outgoing drafts, some signed "Loughborough - Wheat - Stern" but written by Stern. The majority are about encouraging
several jazz musicians to form a "supergroup," as well as Harry Partch, KPFA, & Boobam Drums. Includes GS to Chet Baker 1955
(two drafts, see also Baker to Loughborough in Boobams file as well as some references in Vardas correspondence) ; to Richard
Bock, Pacific Jazz ; to Bob Brookmeyer ; LaNoue Davenport ; to Gil [Evans] re: Playboy's segregated nightclubs (which was
why Evans refused an interview) ; to Stan Getz ; "In These Fruits" music manuscript by Elliot Gibbons & John Kusiak ; to Pat
[Henry], KJAZ ; Stan Kenton ; Lester Koenig, Contemporary Records ; Howard Lucroft, Jazz International ; to Shelly Manne ;
Dick Rising, Capitol Records ; Bob Stendahl.
box 12, folder 2
Correspondence, etc. - electronic & new music
1961-1986
Scope and Contents
Includes Carol Bergé typescript draft, "A Review of Some 'Modern' Music" ; to John Cage ; from Reynold Weidenaar, Independent
Electronic Music Center, Trumansburg, NY ; Otto Leuning ; San Francisco Tape Music Center typescript operating manual by Pauline
Oliveros ; Ramón Sender ; LaMonte Young/Tony Conrad/John Cale/Marian Zazeela performance handbill & MELA Foundation thank
you letter.
box 12, folder 3
BooBam Bamboo Drum Company
1954-1956
Scope and Contents
Short-lived company producing and marketing tuned bamboo drums formed by musician/composer/builders William "Ol' Bill" Loughborough
and David "Buck" Wheat, with Stern as "partner, sales & promotion manager" (according to a later bio). Jack Simpson was also
involved. Bill, David and Gerd were roommates in Sausalito at the time, and the barge became their workshop. Bill had designed
and built Harry Partch's Marimba Eroica, and along the same lines these drums were tuned with an oscillator borrowed from
Mare Island Navy Yard. Investors included the Onslow Fords, Blanche Sherwood, and Peggy Tolk-Watkins. Despite material shortages
(Wheat originally imported bamboo on his way back from cruise ship gigs but was unable to keep up), the drums managed to catch
the interest of several jazz musicians. Stan Kenton came to see instruments and Shelley Manne bought a set after having borrowed
Chet Baker's for a recording with Russ Freeman. Baker also performed with them on the Today show in 1956. Woody Herman, Gerry
Mulligan & Cal Tjader apparently owned some as well (see Jazz Correspondence file). Around late 1955 they had a falling out,
and according to an undated clipping, Gerd sued for $20,000. The company re-structured with new partner William Buck as Musical
Engineering Associates, producing (according to a brochure) a line of "Tunedwood Drums." After selling to Henry "Sandy" Jacobs
in 1959, M.E.A. started making records for Alan Watts, S.I. Hayakawa, and others.
File contains mostly correspondence (with many mentions of Chet Baker, Harry Partch, Stan Kenton, KPFA, & Marguerite/Maya
Angelou), as well as a draft press release, notes, clippings, photograph of display, and promotional material, some with photos
by Fred Lyon. Due to the short life of the venture, undated letters are probably all from 1954 or 1955. Includes undated letter
from Chet Baker to "Old Bill and family" ; undated letter signed "Skuhlawnk" [Bill, with typed part prob. by Pam Loughborough]
mentions Lou Harrison ; another undated letter from Bill suggests that Partch may write some material for a Stan Kenton Presents...
LP with Chet Baker in mind for the trumpet part ; undated 6/15 Stern to Buckwheat mentions Allyn Ferguson ; letters to Roy
Harte of Drum City and other music stores & distributors ; American Import Company re: bamboo ; Carl Haverlin/BMI (see also
Meyer & Jones songwriters file). 8/25/55 Stern to Oliver Daniel ; 10/13/1955 copy of letter from Loughborough to Stern's lawyer
James B. Fletcher ; 5/7/56 to Bill [Buck?] ; 12/28/56 Stern to Fletcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Loughborough, Bill, 1926-2010
Wheat, David, 1922-1985
box 69, folder 3
Marin Independent Journal article on BooBams
August 15, 1955
Scope and Contents
With photos, including one of Anna Halprin dancing to drum. Note person identified as Buckwheat is actually Jak Simpson.
box 4, folder 6
Clippings (oversize material)
Scope and Contents
Includes material on Harry Partch, San Francisco Tape Music Center, Ramon Sender, La Monte Young, and complete copy of
Bach Rock v.1 n.1 (Columbia Records promotional newspaper)
Series 11. Harry Partch
Scope and Contents
Stern first met Harry Partch at a party at Gordon and Jacqueline Onslow Ford's in 1953. Not long after, he became manager
of the Harry Partch Trust Fund, which was "set up to produce performances and recordings of Mr. Partch's musical compositions"
until Partch left for Illinois in 1956. According to a late 50s bio, Stern managed subscriptions, accounting, and promotion,
supervised six months of Oedipus rehearsal with a cast of thirty, and arranged recording, production, promotion and sale of
records on the Gate 5 label.
He also is listed as "Messenger - Gerd Stern" on at least one Oedipus program and recording. While there are no recordings
or scores persent in these files, there is a significant amount of correspondence which continues through 1970. see also Boobams,
barge, etc.
Related Materials
University of Illinois Archives holds the Harry Partch Estate Archive, 1918-1991:
https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=10747
The collection includes correspondence from and to Stern.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Partch, Harry, 1901-1974
box 12, folder 4
Correspondence
1953-1999
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Partch, Stern, and others including Danlee Mitchell, Allan Louw, Vincenzo Prockelo, Madeline Tourtelot,
and Betty Freeman. There are mentions of the Onslow Fords, Oliver Daniel, Adaline Kent (who did the sets for Partch's Sausalito
Regatta performance), Dick Emerson, Alwin Nikolais, and Jonathan Williams.
Includes: 6/23/53 to Partch "Since we met I have been attempting to write you" ; 12/4/53 from Wallace Hamilton, KPFA re: Partch
concert ; undated and 2/4/54 to Ross [Russell?] re: recordings ; 3/8/54 Partch to Loughborough re: wood from Big Sur ; 10/8/54
from Glenn Dolberg, BMI re: Fred Lyon, photography ; 10/14/54 to Oliver Daniel, CBS ; Corning Glass Works re: carboy donation
; Lauriston C. Marshall, Link-Belt Company re: Instrusions recordings (Marshall worked with Partch on two Guggenheim grants
researching instrement building and recording); one 8/2/66 Partch postcard to "Dion Wright & The Sterns" ; 3/13/70 last letter
from Partch ; 7/29/99 Dean Drummond, Newband to Stern.
Also filed here are four pages of notes titled "Final Master (Copy) Sequences." These notes were found in a folder among miscellaneous
USCO notes but were later determined to be Partch material due the fact that the notes were on the blank sides of Pioneer
Hatchery stationery. Partch lived at the old hatchery in Petaluma, California beginning in October 1962.
box 12, folder 5
Harry Partch Trust Fund
1953-1954
Scope and Contents
Typescript drafts of prospectus for
Oedipus Trust Fund 12/21/53 and related promotional material.
box 12, folder 6
Photographs
Scope and Contents
Approximately twelve prints of Partch, Gate 5 Ensemble and other musicians, and instruments. One photo of Partch has "Elizabeth
Foster" written on the back (she was a soprano who performed on
Oedipus), another is a promotional photo of Partch and kithara used by KPFa to promote a Berkeley concernt, and another image of
cloud chamber bowls has a note from Gerd's friends Andre and Gogo on the back.
box 12, folder 7
Printed material
Scope and Contents
Gate 5 Records liner notes ; BMI pamphlet inscribed to Gerd & Ann ; 1991 CRI catalog
box 12, folder 8
Programs (some annotated)
1952-1962, 1986
Scope and Contents
Includes
King Oedipus at Mills College 1952 ; Sausalito Regatta Children & Arts Fair Program with
Oedipus performances ; University of Illinois Festival of Contemporary Arts:
The Bewitched 1957 and
Revelation in the Courthouse Park 1961 ;
Water! Water! at University of Illinois 1962 ;
King Oedipus, American Festival of Microtonal Music 1987.
box 12, folder 9
Press
Scope and Contents
Includes Oliver Daniel article on Music at Home Jan.-Feb.1955 (reproduced as of 12/2017 at http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2014/11/harry-partch-by-oliver-daniel-1955.html)
; J. David Bowen article for HiFi/Stereo February 1961 ; Dion Wright's Irregular Quarterly Vol.3 No.3, with Partch theme,
1987 ; various clippings.
box 12, folder 10
Tom McGeary/University of Illinois
1983-2004
Series 12. Teaching/academic appointments
box 75, folder 1
Harvard University - Associate in Education
1969-1970
box 75, folder 2
University of California, Santa Cruz - History of Consciousness program
1971-1972
box 75, folder 3
University of California, Santa Cruz - Videince
1971
box 75, folder 4
University of California, Santa Cruz - coursepacks
Series 13. Other activities and projects
13.1 America the Beautiful
Scope and Contents
Stern was an active member and served on its board for several years. Includes various copies of their "Better Times" newsletter
from 1975 to 1987.
box 23, folder 11
America the Beautiful, undated & "Better Times"
1975-1987
box 23, folder 12
America the Beautiful
1974-1978
box 23, folder 13
America the Beautiful
1979-1995
13.2 Reality Club
Scope and Contents
Stern was an early member of this speaker roundtable founded by John Brockman. He also presented "Poemthink" there.
box 73, folder 2
info & introductory packets
box 73, folder 6
Edge Foundation newsletters 1-5
Scope and Contents
Note some issues contain evidence of mold or water damage.
box 75, folder 5
Biographical
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of astrology reading 1928, "my accomplishments" circa 1950s, later remembrances, formal bios, etc.
box 75, folder 6
Interviews
Scope and Contents
More interviews elsewere, especially in USCO. Includes Douglas Davis interview annotated transcript 1971, correspondence re:
Berkeley oral histry, etc.
box 75, folder 7
Ephemera
Scope and Contents
business cards, letterhead, awards & certificates
box 75, folder 8
Personal
Scope and Contents
Most items from folder originally labeled "Personal." Includes juvenile writing ; United States Lines SS Washington from Hamburg
to New York passenger list, March 25-27, 1936 ; WWII ration books ; bar mitzvah announcement 10/25/41 ; certificate of Selective
Service ("not acceptable") 5/29/51 ; photocopies of citizenship certificate 1953.
box 75, folder 9
Early education
1942-1944
Scope and Contents
Includes: graduation certificate and program 1942 ; material related to science project with Leon Hirsch, Bronx High School
of Science Biology class- "Cell types in Tissue Culture of Fish," winner of best exhibit in 2nd Greater New York School Contest
of the NYC Cancer Committee, with New York Herald Tribune article 4/30/44.
box 75, folder 10
Black Mountain College
1948
Scope and Contents
Bulletin v.6 n.3, 1948-1949 ; Stern to Martin Duberman.
box 76, folder 1
Barge
1954-1976
Scope and Contents
The Holland was a large (30' by 100') former Navy laundry barge in Sausalito that Stern owned and lived on in the 1950s. A
berth had been given to Stern by Gordon-Onslow-Ford around 1955, and not much later Blanche Sherwood serendipitously gave
him a barge. The boat was host to several parties, including one reportedly photographed by William Claxton for Life, and
was also the headquarters for Poems in Folio and briefly the Boobam Bamboo Drum Company. After Stern moved east around 1960,
he rented the barge to Stewart Brand after he got out of the Army, and spent the next several years trying to find a buyer.
Folk singer Barbara Dane at one point pursued the idea of turning the barge into a nightclub like the Blind Lemon, the club
she co-owned in Berkeley, and Harry Partch had also considered renting the boat. However, Stern ultimately rented it to a
woman named Brite Bonnier. The Stanford Daily of July 28th 1967 notes that "Eugene lonesco's The Lesson will be presented
on the Holland Barge at Waldo Point, Sausalito." It's current fate is unknown, but its more than likely destroyed. See also
Brand, Partch, personal, newspaper clippings and other files.
box 76, folder 2
Marijuana conviction & therapy
1959-1963
box 76, folder 3
Nervous breakdown
early 1960s
box 76, folder 5
Photographs
Scope and Contents
Includes the following: Gerd with father & brother, late 1970s ; child with tanpura in front of mandala painting, labeled
"Judi Stern 21 Church St." on back ; Stern & Zalman Schachter (probably) ; contact sheet & negatives of unknown house & yard
; Schweber Electronics ad with Stern in bathtub (letter on back probably from Barbara Durkee) ; photocopy of Stern in window
in collage.
box 76, folder 6
Miscellaneous personal/love letters
Scope and Contents
Many are unsigned, but some are from Delores Shirley, Donny, Arlene & Alice. Possibly not all to Stern.
box 76, folder 7
Maya Angelou
Scope and Contents
Stern dated Angelou (who went by Marguerite Angelos at the time) in 1955 between his marriages to Jane Hill and Ann London.
Maya was a nightclub performer at the time, and Gerd's friend Jack Simpson introduced them. Also includes a few later clippings.
box 76, folder 8
Barbara McCallum
Scope and Contents
Stern lived with McCallum in Rockland County, New York after having met her at a party in California. Letters are signed variously
"Barbara" "BJM" and "Deo." Most are undated, but are from approximately 1961-1963. Includes sketches & drawings (some portraits),
and a photo of four unidentified women.
box 76, folder 12
Elinor Pillsbury (aunt)
1951-1953
box 76, folder 13
Jane Hill
1952-1969
Scope and Contents
Jane Hamner Hill Stern Buck was Gerd's first wife, whom he married in 1952. Many letters and notes are undated. Some are from
Jane to Pam (Bill Loughborough's girlfriend?), Radha, and Judi.
box 77, folder 1
Ann London
1956-1965
Scope and Contents
Gerd married Ann London in October 1956. Includes love notes in daily planner, draft of Ann to her father, also Stern to Ann's
sister Mimi, Mr. & Mrs. London, his father Otto, etc. Many loose notes, some clippings. See also Poems in Folio files.
box 77, folder 2
Judi Wilson
1964-1999
Scope and Contents
Judith Ann Wilson Stern. See also USCO.
box 77, folder 3
Sally Shaw
circa 1974-1992
Scope and Contents
Gerd married Sara Judith "Sally" Shaw Stern in 1974.
box 77, folder 9-10
Rabbi Zalman Schachter
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes, writing, etc.
box 78, folder 1
Menorah/New Menorah newsletters
circa 1980-1985
Scope and Contents
Center for Jewish Renewal, Philadelphia
box 78, folder 2-6
B'Nai Or Religious Fellowship
circa 1985-1987
box 78, folder 7
Miscellaneous correspondence
box 78, folder 9
"Notes & script, Kabbalah, Sefer Yetzirah etc."
Series 16. Cheese
Scope and Contents
After Intermedia began to wind down, Stern worked for his his family's cheese importing business.
box 81, folder 1
Compagnie Francois Culinaire
box 81, folder 2
World Import Distributors, Inc.
box 81, folder 3
Dennis Raybuck/Custom Products
Series 17. Magazines and newspapers
Scope and Contents
Contains both full issues and clipped articles, some of which are photocopies. Nearly every item references Stern, USCO, or
Intermedia. There is a small number of clippings and periodicals in other series as well.
box 1, folder 1
Magazines and newspapers
undated, 1944, 1957-1961
box 1, folder 2
Magazines and newspapers
1963
box 1, folder 3
Magazines and newspapers
1964
box 1, folder 4
Magazines and newspapers
1965
box 1, folder 5
Magazines and newspapers
1966
box 2, folder 1
Magazines and newspapers
1967
box 2, folder 2
Magazines and newspapers
1968
box 2, folder 3
Magazines and newspapers
1969
box 2, folder 4
Magazines and newspapers
1970
box 2, folder 5
Magazines and newspapers
1971
box 2, folder 6
Magazines and newspapers
1972
box 3, folder 1
Magazines and newspapers
1973-1974
box 3, folder 2
Magazines and newspapers
1975
box 3, folder 3
Intermedia - Venezuela
1975
box 3, folder 4
Magazines and newspapers
1976
box 3, folder 5
Magazines and newspapers
1977-2003
Series 18. Posters & publicity
box 74, folder 8
Stern-related fliers, press releases, publicity
Scope and Contents
Contains a wide range of material from the late 50s to the 2000s, with an emphasis on poetry readings but also including USCO,
Intermedia and related events.
Includes the following: Nuts And Bolts at Allan Stone Gallery 1962 ; Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of British
Columbia 1964 (posters elsewhere) ; Currents - Electronic Media Conference, Queen's College 1973 (Ken Burke & Linda Levin,
coordinators) ; No Ow Now at Experimental Intermedia ; Destruction at Bella Union 1963 (smaller version of flier filed elsewhere,
possibly later copy) ; San Francisco Poetry Center 1957 ; December Show, New Mission Gallery (group show including Pat Tavenner)
; San Francisco Art Institute "Some New Art in the Bay Area" 1963 ; Harlem's Condemned Six Benefit, Town Hall, New York (Stern
credited with "slide projections") ; reading at The Anarch, Pacifica ; Teleportraits, MOMA Projects: Video XI 1977 ; Poem
Think, Reality Club 1982 ; 65th Birthday Party ; Vorpal Gallery 2002.
box 4, folder 10
Collages
Scope and Contents
Some or all by Stern.
map-folder 71
Posters, etc. (non-art)
Scope and Contents
Various posters not related to art or publicity. Includes plates from old publications, material referring to politics, LSD,
the environment, information theory, etc.
map-folder 72
Posters, etc. (art publicity)
Scope and Contents
Posters, fliers and hadbills for dance/film/video & media art/music/etc., with galleries including David Stuart, Dwan, and
others. Includes the following:
Ed/Ted Carpenter at LACMA handbill (inscribed with short note) ; Niblock, etc. at Experimental Intermedia ; David Weinrib
at Howard Wise (damaged) ; Terry Riley at Courtyard Studio, Philadelphia College of Art November 1967 ; Ono/Lennon at Everson
Museum of Art, Syracuse (newspaper format) ; Rotmil/Taylor/Lenore/Katz "Four Photographers" at Image Gallery, San Francisco
1960 ; L.A. Filmakers Festival, Cinema Theatre
.
box 84, folder 1
Miscellaneous event publicity
Scope and Contents
Handbills, fliers, etc. Includes Peter Max handbill for Human Be-In in New York ; Hippie Community Meeting at St. Marks "minutes"
published by Communications Co., NY ; American Arts Project announcement ; Bici Hendricks Black Thumb Summer Institute of
Human Relations 1966 ; tickets for 1968 & 1969 Village Voice "Obies," etc.
box 4, folder 11
Gate Hill Coop potluck posters
Series 19. Other publications, clippings, etc.
Scope and Contents
Includes articles, magazines, reports, photocopies, brochures, etc.
box 4, folder 7
Beats, Sausalito, Haight, Summer of Love, etc. clippings
circa 1980s-1990s
box 15, folder 6
Management/behavioral science
box 15, folder 7
Multimedia & exhibit design
box 15, folder 10
Miscellaneous printed items
box 82, folder 4
Poetry ephemera
Scope and Contents
Includes program for Allen Ginsberg memorial program in San Francisco, 1997.
box 83, folder 1
Poetry - catalogs, announcements, etc.
1980s-1990s
box 4, folder 9
Printed items, drawn horoscope, collage of press clippings, etc. (oversize material)
Series 20. Writing by others
box 11, folder 13
Draft of beginning of untitled novel by George Denby[?]
1953
Scope and Contents
Identified by attached note by Stern, author had left it at Stern's house with the idea of collaborating.
box 76, folder 14
Copen Hyl - The Gift/ Jane Hill Stern Buck
1951-1953
box 84, folder 3
Jonathan Altman "It Has Nowhere To Come From" typescript
box 84, folder 4
Serge Bouterline typescript
box 84, folder 5
Danny Reynolds partial novel draft, Negril, Jamaica
box 84, folder 6
Ken [Wapner?] - Fishing With My Father
box 84, folder 7
Ann Wilson - two typescripts
Series 21. Film (CLOSED)
Scope and Contents
There are about 19 films (mostly 16mm) in the collection. They include ISC Armco projects, an edited version of "Y", Charlie
Chaplin features, part of a Phill Niblock work, and other reels. Films are closed until processed.
Series 22. Audio reels (CLOSED)
Conditions Governing Access
There are hundreds of open reel audio tapes in the collection. The majority date from Intermedia. Tapes are in generally poor
condition due to prior water damage and will require extensive cleaning prior to transfer. Many tapes also appear to be working
drafts and copies. This series is closed until processed.