Description
Collection consists of a complete set of volumes 1-4 of the
intercommunal newspaper
Kaliflower (April 24,
1969-June 22, 1972), with some supplements, and a large but incomplete collection of
flyers, broadsides, pamphlets, newsletters, and other materials printed by the Free
Print Shop between the years 1968 and 1972. There are also some miscellaneous
related items, including one of the original
Kaliflower clipboards, and the trunk in which the archives were
delivered to California Historical Society.
Background
The Free Print Shop, one of several work projects of the Sutter Street Commune,
published the intercommunal newsletter
Kaliflower in
San Francisco from April 24, 1969 through June 22, 1972. The Sutter Street Commune
was one of several hundred communes in the 1960s in the San Francisco Bay Area. The
Free Print Shop was in the basement of the commune's Victorian house in the
redevelopment-owned area of the city, near where Japantown now stands.
Extent
4 boxes, 2 flat boxes, 1
trunk
Restrictions
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Director of Library and Archives, North Baker
Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco,
CA 94105. Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the
owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from
the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Availability
CHS is not taking appointments for research at this time. Please check the Library's website updates: https://californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/north-baker-research-library/