Handbill that serves as a wedding invitation between Francis Eggnik and Cynthia Helen Fisher on Jan 9, 1967.

Addressed to Carol Tinker, 250 Scott S.F. 94117 Postmark illegible, but in 1967.Schools committee report. SNCC reports on preparation for the State Assembly Comm. On Social Welfare hearings, concern about conditions in the Western Addition Schools, concern about problems of police brutality and harassment, the adequacy of relocation programs, the problems of homeowners.Interview with ex NFL player Cliff Roberts: “Asked what he thought of the “hippie” scene, Cliff observed that he felt that they are being unduly harassed, but that he thought “they” should not try to drop out of society, but try instead to change it, and contribute to it. What would he like to see changed? More unityr between old and new members of the area and more tolerance from both sides. He feels that the new merchants, mostly young people with families, who choose to live here, will stay and contribute and the eventually the hangers on in the street will leave.”

Original handbill for the first Human Bi-In ( A Gathering of the Tribes) in Haight AshburyAn original paper advertising flyer for a seminal event in San Francisco music history, and that of the world: the Human Be-In, which took place on a perfect, beautiful day on Saturday afternoon, January 14, 1967 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. There were several different posters & handbills made to advertise this important happening. This piece was created by artist Michael Bowen. However, unlike the other two, no poster was made of this design. Anyone and everyone in 1960's San Francisco was at this event, which is why Bowen's artwork simply says "All S.F. Rock Bands." Performers included Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Loading Zone, Country Joe & the Fish, the Charlatans and others. Only Big Brother & the Holding Company w/Janis did not make it to the event. The Dead played "Morning Dew" for the first time ever at this show. To many, this event - referred to locally as just "the Be-In" - kicked off the Summer of Love. Ten to twenty thousand people gathered in the Polo Fields for the free happening, and by all accounts, it came off beautifully, without a hitch. Even the Hell's Angels played peacemakers. In a way, this event put hippies in the national spotlight for the first time. Jerry Garcia told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970, "The first really pure event was the Be-In, the first time that the whole 'head scene' was out in force. It was publicized through completely underground channels - posters, word of mouth and that sort of thing." This was even before the birth of FM rock radio, so advertising hand-outs were an essential means of getting the word out. The luminaries, hipsters, poets and others advertised on the flyer include East-Coast LSD advocates Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (the future Ram Dass), Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Lenore Kandel, counterculture activist Jerry Rubin, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, and "heads, families, lovers, children, heroes and animals." As for non-living things, we were told to expect "feathers, candles, chimes, cymbals, banners, drums, incense, flags and flutes." How could you not have a good time?

INVITATION TO THE PSYCHEDELIC COMMUNITY put up or shut up. It is a plea to the psychedelic community to join and participate in Digger street actions.

Original handbill with the faces of Indians in the middle, for the first Human Bi-In ( A Gathering of the Tribes) in Haight AshburyAn original paper advertising flyer for a seminal event in San Francisco music history, and that of the world: the Human Be-In, which took place on a perfect, beautiful day on Saturday afternoon, January 14, 1967 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. There were several different posters & handbills made to advertise this important happening. This piece was created by artist Michael Bowen. However, unlike the other two, no poster was made of this design. Anyone and everyone in 1960's San Francisco was at this event, which is why Bowen's artwork simply says "All S.F. Rock Bands." Performers included Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Loading Zone, Country Joe & the Fish, the Charlatans and others. Only Big Brother & the Holding Company w/Janis did not make it to the event. The Dead played "Morning Dew" for the first time ever at this show. To many, this event - referred to locally as just "the Be-In" - kicked off the Summer of Love. Ten to twenty thousand people gathered in the Polo Fields for the free happening, and by all accounts, it came off beautifully, without a hitch. Even the Hell's Angels played peacemakers. In a way, this event put hippies in the national spotlight for the first time. Jerry Garcia told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970, "The first really pure event was the Be-In, the first time that the whole 'head scene' was out in force. It was publicized through completely underground channels - posters, word of mouth and that sort of thing." This was even before the birth of FM rock radio, so advertising hand-outs were an essential means of getting the word out. The luminaries, hipsters, poets and others advertised on the flyer include East-Coast LSD advocates Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (the future Ram Dass), Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Lenore Kandel, counterculture activist Jerry Rubin, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, and "heads, families, lovers, children, heroes and animals." As for non-living things, we were told to expect "feathers, candles, chimes, cymbals, banners, drums, incense, flags and flutes." How could you not have a good time?

This handbill urges hippies to give LSD to friends and strangers.

This handbill encourages others to join the diggers who live off of society’s surplus and to thus free themselves from the economic slavery of the capitalist system.

This handbill encourages individuals to “Be Free. Drop all the way out. Reject the whole system. All of it. The system is what's making you unfree. The system is what has you in chains. The system is what’s killing you. “Wealth, success, security, luxury, comfort, certainty: these are all system-oriented foals. They’re what the system uses to reward its subjects & keep them from noticing that they’re not free. They’re the system’s bait, & they’ve all got hidden hooks in them If you go for them, you’re caught.There’s no possible compromise. Either you’re hooked or you’re free. No third alternative.Drop all the way out. Stop wanting what the system tells you to. Be free. Do what you want to do. Be free. Throw it all away. You don't need any of it. You only think you need it because the system says you need it. It ain’t true. The system has addicted you to an artificial need. Kick the habit. It ain’t reel.” The Communication Company fashioned themselves the publishing arm of the Diggers. As such, their record of broadsides, manifestos, leaflets and street sheets leaves us a rich slice of Digger philosophy as it played out on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury during the spring and summer months of 1967. Many of the anonymous sheets were authored by the Diggers themselves; others were penned by various authors including Chester Anderson, one of the Beat survivors from North Beach who gravitated to the new scene in the Haight. Inspired by the Diggers and their Free philosophy, Chester and his partners Claude and Helene Hayward set up a “free” printing operation and called it the “Communication Company.”” Everything was printed free of charge, or nearly so. If someone heard a rumor of a bust, or had a good lead on free food, or wanted to announce a poetry reading, the Communication Company had roving reporters on the street who could rush at a moment's notice back to the flat where the Gestetners ( a type of duplicating machine) were kept. Within a short time, a new street sheet would appear, distributed by the volunteers who used the street poles as their community bulletin board.

Dedicated to Col White, one of Chester Anderson’s very few personal heroes, who died the day before the handbill was issued.

A review of the first Human Be-In written by Chester Anderson. “Yesterday we graduated from whatever criminal bag the establishment has reserved for us and became a minority group. A persecuted minority.”

This handbill Announces the aims of Communication Company. "OUR POLICY| Love is communication.| OUR PLANS & HOPES| to provide quick & inexpensive printing service for the| hip community.| to print anything the Diggers want printed.|.| to be outrageous pamphleteers.|.." WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET! .. WE NEED .. " Signed "claude & chester | 626-2926 | we deliver".

“The time has come to be free. BE FREE. Do your thing. Be what you are. Do It. NOW. This is our secret weapon. This is how to do it. And it’s groovey.

Original handbill with a map in the middle, for the first Human Bi-In ( A Gathering of the Tribes) in Haight AshburyAn original paper advertising flyer for a seminal event in San Francisco music history, and that of the world: the Human Be-In, which took place on a perfect, beautiful day on Saturday afternoon, January 14, 1967 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. There were several different posters & handbills made to advertise this important happening. This piece was created by artist Michael Bowen. However, unlike the other two, no poster was made of this design. Anyone and everyone in 1960's San Francisco was at this event, which is why Bowen's artwork simply says "All S.F. Rock Bands." Performers included Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Loading Zone, Country Joe & the Fish, the Charlatans and others. Only Big Brother & the Holding Company w/Janis did not make it to the event. The Dead played "Morning Dew" for the first time ever at this show. To many, this event - referred to locally as just "the Be-In" - kicked off the Summer of Love. Ten to twenty thousand people gathered in the Polo Fields for the free happening, and by all accounts, it came off beautifully, without a hitch. Even the Hell's Angels played peacemakers. In a way, this event put hippies in the national spotlight for the first time. Jerry Garcia told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970, "The first really pure event was the Be-In, the first time that the whole 'head scene' was out in force. It was publicized through completely underground channels - posters, word of mouth and that sort of thing." This was even before the birth of FM rock radio, so advertising hand-outs were an essential means of getting the word out. The luminaries, hipsters, poets and others advertised on the flyer include East-Coast LSD advocates Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (the future Ram Dass), Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Lenore Kandel, counterculture activist Jerry Rubin, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, and "heads, families, lovers, children, heroes and animals." As for non-living things, we were told to expect "feathers, candles, chimes, cymbals, banners, drums, incense, flags and flutes." How could you not have a good time?

This handbill encourages “psychedelic rape.” That is, feeding LSD to unsuspecting friends, parents and others. “Your can’t explain it to them. DO IT TO THEM. Sneak up on them. Surprise them, The art of our thing is Total Experience, Assault, Outrage. Be an artist. Rape every mind and body you can reach. Put it in their coffee, & booze & water. Put it in their (XXXXXXXX).

“The diggers are a rebellion against commodities and the hierarchy of commodity values.”“DIGGERS FREE freedom now is for the first time not freedom from poverty, but freedom from material abundance.”

“The Haight-Ashbury community is only one active manifestation of a world-wide youth revolution that has been infused with a revelation of the spiritual unity of all men and women of all races here and everywhere….”“First it is important to understand that the Haight-Ashbury represents a cultural renaissance and creative surge that is changing the bruted face of America.”

Original handbill for the first Human Bi-In ( A Gathering of the Tribes) in Haight AshburyAn original paper advertising flyer for a seminal event in San Francisco music history, and that of the world: the Human Be-In, which took place on a perfect, beautiful day on Saturday afternoon, January 14, 1967 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. There were several different posters & handbills made to advertise this important happening. This piece was created by artist Michael Bowen. However, unlike the other two, no poster was made of this design. Anyone and everyone in 1960's San Francisco was at this event, which is why Bowen's artwork simply says "All S.F. Rock Bands." Performers included Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Loading Zone, Country Joe & the Fish, the Charlatans and others. Only Big Brother & the Holding Company w/Janis did not make it to the event. The Dead played "Morning Dew" for the first time ever at this show. To many, this event - referred to locally as just "the Be-In" - kicked off the Summer of Love. Ten to twenty thousand people gathered in the Polo Fields for the free happening, and by all accounts, it came off beautifully, without a hitch. Even the Hell's Angels played peacemakers. In a way, this event put hippies in the national spotlight for the first time. Jerry Garcia told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970, "The first really pure event was the Be-In, the first time that the whole 'head scene' was out in force. It was publicized through completely underground channels - posters, word of mouth and that sort of thing." This was even before the birth of FM rock radio, so advertising hand-outs were an essential means of getting the word out. The luminaries, hipsters, poets and others advertised on the flyer include East-Coast LSD advocates Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (the future Ram Dass), Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Lenore Kandel, counterculture activist Jerry Rubin, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, and "heads, families, lovers, children, heroes and animals." As for non-living things, we were told to expect "feathers, candles, chimes, cymbals, banners, drums, incense, flags and flutes." How could you not have a good time?

“that it is time to end Prohibition again. And with it put an end to the gangster ism, police mania, hypocrisy, anxiety, & national stupidity generated by administrative abuse of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937.”

Entropy is another name for order. Thus the handbill is encouraging the reader to rebel against the orderliness of the current economic/political system.

Was the Earth made for to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; But if the Lord made these for the use of his Creation, surely then the Earth was made by the Lord to be a Common Treasury for all, not a particular treasury for some.

Original handbill for the first Human Bi-In ( A Gathering of the Tribes) in Haight AshburyAn original paper advertising flyer for a seminal event in San Francisco music history, and that of the world: the Human Be-In, which took place on a perfect, beautiful day on Saturday afternoon, January 14, 1967 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. There were several different posters & handbills made to advertise this important happening. This piece was created by artist Michael Bowen. However, unlike the other two, no poster was made of this design. Anyone and everyone in 1960's San Francisco was at this event, which is why Bowen's artwork simply says "All S.F. Rock Bands." Performers included Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Loading Zone, Country Joe & the Fish, the Charlatans and others. Only Big Brother & the Holding Company w/Janis did not make it to the event. The Dead played "Morning Dew" for the first time ever at this show. To many, this event - referred to locally as just "the Be-In" - kicked off the Summer of Love. Ten to twenty thousand people gathered in the Polo Fields for the free happening, and by all accounts, it came off beautifully, without a hitch. Even the Hell's Angels played peacemakers. In a way, this event put hippies in the national spotlight for the first time. Jerry Garcia told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970, "The first really pure event was the Be-In, the first time that the whole 'head scene' was out in force. It was publicized through completely underground channels - posters, word of mouth and that sort of thing." This was even before the birth of FM rock radio, so advertising hand-outs were an essential means of getting the word out. The luminaries, hipsters, poets and others advertised on the flyer include East-Coast LSD advocates Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (the future Ram Dass), Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Lenore Kandel, counterculture activist Jerry Rubin, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, and "heads, families, lovers, children, heroes and animals." As for non-living things, we were told to expect "feathers, candles, chimes, cymbals, banners, drums, incense, flags and flutes." How could you not have a good time?

Original handbill for the first Human Bi-In ( A Gathering of the Tribes) in Haight AshburyAn original paper advertising flyer for a seminal event in San Francisco music history, and that of the world: the Human Be-In, which took place on a perfect, beautiful day on Saturday afternoon, January 14, 1967 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. There were several different posters & handbills made to advertise this important happening. This piece was created by artist Michael Bowen. However, unlike the other two, no poster was made of this design. Anyone and everyone in 1960's San Francisco was at this event, which is why Bowen's artwork simply says "All S.F. Rock Bands." Performers included Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Loading Zone, Country Joe & the Fish, the Charlatans and others. Only Big Brother & the Holding Company w/Janis did not make it to the event. The Dead played "Morning Dew" for the first time ever at this show. To many, this event - referred to locally as just "the Be-In" - kicked off the Summer of Love. Ten to twenty thousand people gathered in the Polo Fields for the free happening, and by all accounts, it came off beautifully, without a hitch. Even the Hell's Angels played peacemakers. In a way, this event put hippies in the national spotlight for the first time. Jerry Garcia told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970, "The first really pure event was the Be-In, the first time that the whole 'head scene' was out in force. It was publicized through completely underground channels - posters, word of mouth and that sort of thing." This was even before the birth of FM rock radio, so advertising hand-outs were an essential means of getting the word out. The luminaries, hipsters, poets and others advertised on the flyer include East-Coast LSD advocates Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (the future Ram Dass), Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Lenore Kandel, counterculture activist Jerry Rubin, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, and "heads, families, lovers, children, heroes and animals." As for non-living things, we were told to expect "feathers, candles, chimes, cymbals, banners, drums, incense, flags and flutes." How could you not have a good time?