Finding aid to the Hippies Collection
1965-1975
(bulk 1967)
Finding aid prepared by San Francisco History Center staff.
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA, 94102
(415) 557-4567
info@sfpl.org
Revised 2012
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.
Physical Location: The collection is stored onsite.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hippies Collection (SFH 60), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Provenance
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.
Related Materials
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Arrangement
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.)
Series 1
Correspondence,
1965-1972
Physical Description:
5.0 folders
Box 1, Folder 1
Jerry Rubin to Allen Cohen,
1968
Box 1, Folder 2
David Sandberg to Allen Cohen,
1965-1966
Box 1, Folder 3
Steve Walzer to Allen Cohen,
1971-1972
Box 1, Folder 4
Sr. Mary Norbert Korte manuscripts,
1967-1968
Box 1, Folder 5
Allen Cohen /
San Francisco Oracle,
1966-1967
Series 2
Ephemera,
undated
Physical Description:
5.0 folders
Box 1, Folder 6
Street Raps: A Com/Co Annotated Anthology,
[1966-1967]
Box 1, Folder 7
Communication Company Publications,
undated or duplicates
Series 3
Publications,
1965-1975
Physical Description:
72.0 folders
Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically by publication title.
Box 1, Folder 11
Blew Ointment Press (Vancouver, B.C.),
June 1967
Box 1, Folder 12
Change (Detroit),
ca. 1965-1966
Box 1, Folder 13
Community Communications Gathering Directory of Berkeley Collectives,
undated
Box 1, Folder 14
Context (San Francisco),
September 1966
Box 1, Folder 15
Cop Out (San Francisco),
1968
Box 1, Folder 16
Cow (San Francisco),
1966?
Box 1, Folder 17
Directory of Social Change (Medford, OR),
1967
Box 1, Folder 18
Documents on Police Bureaucracy's Conspiracy… / compiled by Allen Ginsberg,
1970
Box 1, Folder 19
Esquire (New York),
September 1967
Box 1, Folder 20
Fake Revolt / G. Legman,
1967
Box 1, Folder 21
Fat Frog (San Bruno),
undated
Box 1, Folder 22
Free City News (San Francisco),
undated
Box 1, Folder 23
Free Poems Among Friends,
1967
Box 1, Folder 24
Great Society / ed. by Ira Cohen,
1967
Box 1, Folder 25
Grist (Lawrence, KS),
1966
Box 1, Folder 26
Guide to the Complete Enjoyment of Pot (San Francisco),
ca. 1966
Box 1, Folder 27
Haight Ashbury Eye (San Francisco),
undated
Box 1, Folder 28
Haight Ashbury Free Press,
1967
Issues:
v. 1 nos. 1, 2, 4
Box 1, Folder 29
Haight Ashbury Ink Link,
1966-1968
Issues:
Nov. 1966; Mar. 1967; May 1967; Sept. 1967; Nov. 1967; Dec. 1967; Jan. 1968; Mar. 1968)
Box 1, Folder 30
Haight Ashbury Maverick,
1967
Issues:
v. 1 nos. 2, 4-9; v. 2 no.1; 1 issue undated
Box 1, Folder 31
Haight Ashbury Song Book / Ashleigh Brilliant,
1967
Box 1, Folder 32
Haight Ashbury Tribune,
undated
Box 1, Folder 33
Heirs,
1968
Issues:
v. 1 nos. 1 and 2
Box 1, Folder 34
Hippie is Necessary / Bob Fitch,
1967
Box 1, Folder 35
Hippies / Jan Meadoff,
1967
Box 1, Folder 36
The Hippies, by the correspondents of Time / ed. by Joe David Brown,
1967
Box 1, Folder 37
Hippy's Handbook / Ruth Bronsteen,
1967
Box 2, Folder 1
I.D. Magazine 1966 Band Book,
1966
Box 2, Folder 2
Incredible Adventures of Annabel Smith,
1967
Box 2, Folder 3
Kaleidoscope Script,
August 1967
Box 2, Folder 4
Kept Press: the Folk and Blues Review (Palo Alto),
1968
Box 2, Folder 6
KYA Beat (Hollywood, CA),
August 26, 1967
Box 2, Folder 7
Life,
Sept. 1, 1967 and June 28, 1968
Box 2, Folder 8
Love Book / Lenore Kandel,
1966
Box 2, Folder 9
Love Guide to Haight Ashbury,
ca. 1967
Box 2, Folder 10
Love Street
September 1967
Box 2, Folder 11
Lung Socket / Brown Miller, ed.,
1968
Box 2, Folder 12
Messiah's World Crusade,
undated
Box 2, Folder 13
Methods of Organization for Collectives,
undated
Box 2, Folder 14
Middle Class Standard
July 16, 1967
Box 2, Folder 15
Mid Peninsula Free University,
1967–1970
Box 2, Folder 16
Modern Utopian
January 1968
Box 2, Folder 17
Mojo – Navigator Rock & Roll News
August 1967
Box 2, Folder 18
Newspoems / Tuli Kupferberg,
1971
Box 2, Folder 19
Nexus
1964 and 1967
Issues:
v. 1 no. 5 and v. 3 no. 2
Box 2, Folder 20
Now Now (San Francisco)
1965
Box 2, Folder 21
Or (Boulder Creek),
April 1966
Box 2, Folder 22
O’er #2 (Monterey),
December 1966
Box 2, Folder 23
Oracle of Southern California,
March 1967
Box 2, Folder 24
Organic Morning Glory Message,
January – March 1971
Box 2, Folder 26
Origin of the Epithet "Hippie" / Peter Tamony,
undated
Box 2, Folder 27
Out of Sight,
August 1, 1966
Issues:
v. 1 nos. 1 and 2
Box 2, Folder 28
Peace Poems / Students and Teachers of City College of San Francisco,
1971
Box 2, Folder 29
People's Medical Handbook / Christian Revolutionary Medical Committees,
undated
Box 2, Folder 31
Rag Theater: The 2400 Block of Telegrah Avenue 1969-1973 / Nacio Jan Brown,
1975
Box 2, Folder 33
Rainbow Oracle of Mandala City,
undated
Box 2, Folder 35
Rolling Renaissance: San Francisco Underground Art in Celebration: 1945-1968,
1945-1968
Box 2, Folder 37
San Francisco Daily Cream,
1967
Box 2, Folders 38-41
San Francisco Oracle,
1966-1968
Issues:
v. 1 nos. 1, 2, 4 (2 copies), 5, 6 (4 copies), 7 (and variant), 8-12
Box 2, Folder 42
Saturday Evening Post,
September 23, 1967
Box 2, Folder 44
Topography and History of the Haight-Ashbury District,
July 1967
On cover:
"An extract from
A Changing Urban Parish--A Study of Mobility in St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco, California by Sister M. Bernadette Giles, P.B.V.M., July 1959."
"Published by the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council, 1790 Haight St., San Francisco."
Box 2, Folder 45
Tri-X Chronicles / Bil Paul,
1972
Box 2, Folder 47
Way: Catholic Viewpoints,
June 1967
