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Finding aid to the Hippies Collection
1965-1975
(bulk 1967)
SFH 60
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Title: Hippies Collection
Date (inclusive): 1965-1975
Date (bulk): 1967
Collection Identifier: SFH 60
Physical Description:
2 boxes
(2.0 cubic feet)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4567
info@sfpl.org
Abstract: Correspondence, newspapers, little magazines, poetry, monographs, and ephemera documenting the counterculture movement of
the mid 1960s in San Francisco, the "Summer of Love" of 1967, and to a lesser degree, local anti-war, racial equality, and
New Age movements into the mid 1970s.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
The collection is open for research.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
[Identification of item], Hippies Collection (SFH 60), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
The material comes from several sources. Deborah Wolf donated
San Francisco Oracle issues and Communication Company street raps. Some ephemera was originally in the possession of Doug Charlsen. Allen Cohen
donated the correspondence in Box 1. The layouts for Steve Walzer and Allen Cohen's photographic essay,
Childbirth Is Ecstasy, are in the San Francisco History Center collection; both layouts and correspondence probably came to us from the same donor.
Researchers interested in newspapers listed in this guide should check San Francisco History Center periodical holdings; researchers
interested in literary works, poetry and 'zines should see the Book Arts and Special Collections Center Little Maga/Zines
Collection. The
San Francisco Oracle is available in both facsimile edition and on CD-ROM in the San Francisco History Center.
Two oversize volumes of San Francisco newspaper clippings about hippies, the Diggers, and Haight-Ashbury (1965-1970) that
were compiled by library staff are also available from the San Francisco History Center stacks.
Correspondence, newspapers, little magazines, poetry, monographs, and ephemera documenting the counterculture movement of
the mid-late 1960s in San Francisco, the "Summer of Love" of 1967, and to a lesser degree, local anti-war, racial equality,
and New Age movements into the mid 1970s. Most of the material was produced or published in San Francisco, though some counterculture
publications from outside San Francisco and California are included.
The collection is arranged in three series: Series 1: Correspondence; Series 2: Ephemera; and Series 3: Publications.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hippies
Counterculture--California--San Francisco
Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.)