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Free City.

Title: Free City. [Set #1].
Publication: [San Francisco, Calif. : Free City Collective, 1967]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+ Counterculture Diggers F74 1967	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

10 sheets : ill.; 36 x 22 cm.

Alternative Title

Free City news. Set #1
Free City news sheets. Set #1
Free City communiques. Set #1

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Genre/Form

Broadsides – California – San Francisco – 20th century.

Note

First of two collections of news sheets printed on a Gestetner mimeograph machine and distributed by the Free City Collective in late 1967 and early 1968. Cf. The Digger archives.
Title from first sheet.
Imprint, set numbering, and sheet titles from The Digger archives, viewed April 1, 2011.
Includes poetry, graphics, and social commentary.
Printed in color on rectos of yellow, white, beige, salmon, grayish-green, and pale green papers, and issued as a set.
The Diggers evolved from the San Francisco Mime Troupe, an anarchist, guerrilla, street-theater group in San Francisco, and greatly enlarged the scope of their activities in the years 1965-1973; they also inspired a sister group in London. They took their name from the mid-17th-century English Diggers (and Levellers)--revolutionary Utopians who exploited the dislocations of the Civil War to promulgate their vision of a propertyless, classless society. The most famous services provided by the San Francisco Diggers were distributing free food every day in Golden Gate Park, and their Free Stores, in which everything (clothing, tools, books, etc.) was free. The Diggers coined various slogans that became popular in counterculture circles and soon after in society at large. The best known of these are "Do your own thing" and "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

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Restricted access;

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Contents

[1]. Free City : and the city was pure gold -- [2]. News free is fact is prophecy is -- [3]. They were immigrants who had come from too far off ... -- [4]. And then, of course, the cops came -- [5]. Fuck yourself -- [6]. The story of man ; Just a big TV show -- [7]. [Graphic image, no text] -- [8]. Politic contained herein highly suspect to all authority prisoners -- [9]. God's work must truly be our own -- [10]. Fuck off.

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture Diggers F74 1967

OCLC

710859461

Title

Free City. [Set #1].

Imprint

[San Francisco, Calif. : Free City Collective, 1967]

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Local Note

Berg Collection set originally bound with a metal clip in upper left hand corner.

Berg Collection set comprises only 9 sheets. 7 of these correspond to the sheets in set no.1 (nos. 4-6 are lacking), but the Berg's set also contains two posters not described in either Communique no. 1 or no. 2 in the Digger archive.

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Free City Collective (San Francisco, Calif.)

Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.)

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture Diggers F74 1967

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