Finding Aid to the Gene Anthony Summer of Love Photograph Collection, 1965-circa 1970

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1 No online items Collection, 1965-circa 1970 David Patacsil and Chris McDonald The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA Phone: (510) Fax: (510) URL: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. BANC PIC

2 Collection number: BANC PIC The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA Phone: (510) Fax: (510) URL: Finding Aid Author(s): David Patacsil and Chris McDonald Date Completed: Finding Aid Encoded By: GenX 2013 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: Gene Anthony summer of love photograph collection Date (inclusive): 1965-circa 1970 Collection Number: BANC PIC Photographer: Anthony, Gene Extent: 1 box (84 photographic prints) : chiefly b&w ; prints 16 x 20 in. Repository: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA Phone: (510) Fax: (510) bancref@library.berkeley.edu URL: Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English Physical Location: BANC PIC B Access Information RESTRICTED COLLECTION: Use only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Gene Anthony summer of love photograph collection, BANC PIC , The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog Hippies--California--San Francisco--Photographs. Nineteen sixties--social aspects--california--san Francisco--Photographs. Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.)--Pictorial works. San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works. Photographs Purchased from Gene Anthony, BANC PIC

3 Processing Information Captions have been supplied by library staff. Descriptive information -- including identification of subjects, locations and dates -- was gathered from Anthony s book, as well as the Gene Anthony section of the Wolfgang s Vault web site ( and other online sources. A few photographs were assigned item numbers shortly after receipt of the collection, ca The photographs have since been rearranged. Previous item numbers are noted for those prints whose item numbers were changed during this rearrangement. Scope and Content Note Original large-format photographs, most of the images of which are reproduced in Anthony's book Summer of Love : Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (published in 1980). Images document people, places, events and street scenes associated with the counter-culture movement of the mid- to late 1960s in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially as evidenced in the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco and culminating in the 1967 summer of love associated with this community. Among the individuals, music groups and other organizations depicted in the collection are Grateful Dead, the Charlatans, Bill Graham, Timothy Leary, Sonny Barger and Hell's Angels, Chet Helms, the Diggers, Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Jerry Rubin, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Herb Caen, the Cockettes, Sexual Freedom League, Kenneth Rexroth, and John Altoon. Locations depicted include Haight Street and the Haight-Ashbury district, Golden Gate Park, Grateful Dead headquarters at 710 Ashbury St., the Fillmore Auditorium, the Winterland, the Psychedelic Shop, the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, and City Lights Bookstore. Events include the Love Pageant Rally, the Trips Festival, Now Day, and the Human Be-In. Also depicted in the collection are Ken Kesey's 1939 International Harvester bus Furthur and many unidentified hippies, flower children and other young people who gravitated to San Francisco during this time. [The Charlatans performing in front of banner titled Summer of Love. Golden Gate Park, June 21, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :01--B [Performers at Love Pageant Rally at the Panhandle. Golden Gate Park, October 6, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :02--B [Haight-Ashbury street signs ] 1967 BANC PIC :03--B Formerly numbered as BANC PIC :2--B. [Group of young people on porch steps of unidentified house. Including woman with Now Day banner?] 1966? BANC PIC :04--B [Unidentified persons eating a macrobiotic meal at Michael Bowen s place.] 1966? BANC PIC :05--B Signed by the photographer. Formerly numbered as BANC PIC :6--B. [Group of young people sitting on sidewalk. Haight St., 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :06--B [ Cosmic car decorated with hippie graffiti. City of San Francisco, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :07--B BANC PIC

4 [Man with American flag pattern banner wrapped around his body. Now Day, December 17, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :08--B [Close-up portrait of a young woman. Haight-Ashbury, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :09--B [Members of Hell s Angels on motorcycles in center of crowd.] n.d. BANC PIC :10--B [Sonny Barger and other members of Hell s Angels at a press conference held to announce that they would not stage a demonstration on November 20 against the anti-viet Nam marchers. Includes Tiny Walters, Ron Jacobson, Skip Workman, and Tom Thomas. Oakland, CA, November 19, 1965.] 1965 BANC PIC :11--B [ Digger bean soup, free meal at the Panhandle. Golden Gate Park, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :12--B [Members of the Diggers serving vegetable soup at the Panhandle. Golden Gate Park, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :13--B [Member of the Diggers handing out slices of bread at the Panhandle. Golden Gate Park, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :14--B [Members of the Diggers carrying pot of soup at the Panhandle. Golden Gate Park, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :15--B [Group portrait of the Grateful Dead, The Charlatans and several others at Grateful Dead headquarters. 710 Ashbury St ] 1966 BANC PIC :16--B [Grateful Dead practice session. Heliport, Sausalito? 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :17--B [Ron Pigpen McKernan s organ of the Grateful Dead. Heliport, Sausalito? 1967?] 1967? BANC PIC :18--B [Group portrait the Grateful Dead. 710 Ashbury St. 1967?] 1967? BANC PIC :19--B BANC PIC

5 [Chet Helms of The Family Dog ] 1968 BANC PIC :20--B [Editor Allen Cohen, Art Director Steve Levin and other staff of The Oracle.] n.d. BANC PIC :21--B [A woman selling The Oracle on Haight St ] 1967 BANC PIC :22--B [Group of five men on sidewalk. Haight-Ashbury.] n.d. BANC PIC :23--B [A young girl wearing a headband.] n.d. BANC PIC :24--B [Signs on window advertising Loveburgers and hot dogs.] [] n.d. BANC PIC :25--B [ Free Medical sign on front window at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. 558 Clayton St.] n.d. BANC PIC :26--B [Calm center, waiting room at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. 558 Clayton St ] 1966 BANC PIC :27--B [Group of people in line at the Fillmore Auditorium.] n.d. BANC PIC :28--B [Bill Graham ] 1966 BANC PIC :29--B [Bill Graham in his office. Fillmore Auditorium, 1968.] 1968 BANC PIC :30--B [Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin, New Year s Eve Show. Winterland, December 31, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :31--B BANC PIC

6 [Bill Graham holding a wedding cake for Lee Quanstrum and Space Daisy s wedding ceremony at the Fillmore.] n.d. BANC PIC :32--B [Bill Graham. Fillmore Auditorium, June 6, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :33--B [Bill Graham on stage with band member. At Winterland?] n.d. BANC PIC :34--B [Men, women, and child on dance floor. At the Fillmore?] n.d. BANC PIC :35--B [Poster artists on the back steps of the Avalon Ballroom. Includes Stanley Mouse, George Hunter, Bob Seidmann, Bob Fried, Rick Griffin, Wilfred Satty, Victor Moscoso, Wes Wilson, and Alton Kelley, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :36--B Color print. [Ken Kesey s 1939 International Harvester bus Furthur. Front view. 1966?] 1966? BANC PIC :37--B [Ken Kesey s 1939 International Harvester bus Furthur. Side view. 1966?] 1966? BANC PIC :38--B [Ken Kesey s 1939 International Harvester bus Furthur. Side view with man walking in front. 1966?] 1966? BANC PIC :39--B [Ken Kesey s 1939 International Harvester bus Furthur. Side view with group of people sitting on top of the bus. San Francisco State Acid Test show, January 31, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :40--B Color print. Formerly numbered as BANC PIC :8--B. [Soundboard mixer Ken Babbs and crowd in background. Trips Festival at Longshoreman s Hall, January 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :41--B [A woman and man in costume. Trips Festival at Longshoreman s Hall, January 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :42--B BANC PIC

7 [Woman wrapped in toilet paper. Trips Festival at Longshoreman s Hall, January 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :43--B [Large crowd. Trips Festival at Longshoremen s Hall, January 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :44--B [Wide angle view of center stage and crowd. Trips Festival at Longshoreman s Hall, January 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :45--B [Columnist Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle ] 1967 BANC PIC :46--B [Young woman and man dancing. Trips Festival at Longshoreman s Hall, January 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :47--B [Woman and man in center of crowd. Trips Festival at Longshoreman s Hall, January 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :48--B [Man with arms spread open being lifted up. Trips Festival at Longshoreman s Hall, January 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :49--B [Summer solstice celebrants descending from Twin Peaks above the Hashbury. Haight-Ashbury, June 21, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :50--B [Woman wrapped in a flag.] n.d. BANC PIC :51--B [Berkeley Barb publisher Max Scheer.] n.d. BANC PIC :52--B [Woman and man dancing at Love Pageant Rally at the Panhandle. Golden Gate Park, October 6, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :53--B [Car driving down the street with a woman out the window holding Now! sign. Now Day, December 17, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :54--B [Now Day celebrants performing on sidewalk. December 17, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :55--B BANC PIC

8 [Now Day celebrants performing with young girl plugging her ears. December 17, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :56--B [Chocolate George, Hell s Angels member. December 17, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :57--B [Group of people marching on Now Day. Includes Michael McClure. December 17, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :58--B Formerly numbered as BANC PIC :5--B. [Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Snyder signaled the beginning of the Human Be-In by blowing a conch shell at Polo Fields. Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :59--B [Large crowd at the Human Be-In at Polo Fields. Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :60--B [Allen Ginsberg performing at Human Be-In at Polo Fields. Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :61--B [Timothy Leary on stage at Human Be-In at Polo Fields. Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :62--B [Couple embracing in foreground and crowd dispersing in background. Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park. January 14, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :63--B [Woman holding peace sign in front of microphone at Human Be-In at Polo Fields. Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :64--B [ Peace written on marquee of the Haight Theater (later named the Straight Theater) Haight St. Haight-Ashbury, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :64--B Formerly numbered as BANC PIC :3--B. [Peace sign and "Love" etched with chalk on tree. Golden Gate Park? 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :66--B [Jerry Rubin in front of condemned house and debris. Berkeley? 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :67--B BANC PIC

9 [The Cockettes posing nude on trolley car. San Francisco, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :68--B [Two men and two women nudists in front of crowd of onlookers. Fisherman s Wharf.] n.d. BANC PIC :69--B [Two men and two women nudists approaching crowd of onlookers at Fisherman s Wharf.] n.d. BANC PIC :70--B [Man holding sign that says, Stop required clothing on the beach, at Fisherman s Wharf.] n.d. BANC PIC :71--B Formerly numbered as BANC PIC :7--B. [Nude party of the Sexual Freedom League. Unidentified residence, Haight-Ashbury, 1967.] 1967 BANC PIC :72--B [Two women in Victorian costumes walking down the sidewalk.] n.d. BANC PIC :73--B [Portrait of unidentified man with cigar, child playing in background.] n.d. BANC PIC :74--B [Portrait of unidentified man jumping in mid-air.] n.d. BANC PIC :75--B [Portrait of Writer Kenneth Rexroth ] 1966 BANC PIC :76--B [Portrait of unidentified man in suit jacket.] [] n.d. BANC PIC :77--B [Portrait of John Altoon in Yellow Cab hat ] 1965 BANC PIC :78--B [Portrait of unidentified man in jean jacket.] n.d. BANC PIC :79--B [Couple embracing in front of City Lights bookstore. 261 Columbus Ave.] n.d. BANC PIC :80--B BANC PIC

10 [Police apprehending man. Protest rally?] n.d. BANC PIC :81--B Formerly numbered as BANC PIC :4--B. [Portrait of publisher Jann Wenner at the Rolling Stone Office ] 1967 BANC PIC :82--B [Customers at Postermat. San Francisco, 1966.] 1966 BANC PIC :83--B [Ben Friedman, owner of Postermat. 901 Columbus Ave.] n.d. BANC PIC :84--B BANC PIC