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Add MS 89160/5/4
- Record Id:
- 040-003257410
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003252121
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028068215.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89160/5/4
- Title:
- Barry Miles reference folders: 'International Times and the Underground Press'
- Scope & Content:
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- Black and white photograph of Alberto Giacometti, intended for IT, c 1965 (copyright Graham Keen).
- Cover letter from Random House sending Allen Ginsberg’s article for IT, 13 January 1967.
- Clipping of article by James Cameron from the Evening Standard, with handwritten note by Miles 'See if Cameron will write for us. He's always been v/friendly. M', 29 August 1968.
- Poster advertising James Pyman's show Wilf - A Life in Pictures, at Norwich Gallery, featuring a cartoon of IT office being raided by the police, April 2004.
- Black and white photograph of a man holding a poster of IT, 1967.
- Clipping of article IT & the youth revolt from Freedom, Anarchist Weekly, 18 March 1967.
- Clipping of article Publications internationals d’avant-garde from Le Quinzaine litteraire (in French), 13 March 1967.
- Photocopy of article Family Dog Guides Avalon from Los Angeles Free Press, 28 July 1967.
- Clipping of article F is for Sue K is for Pru, What’s 4 U? from Berkeley Barb, 9 June 1967.
- Letter from Nigel Fred Young regarding hippies gathering at Golden Gate Park, the first 'gentle' state in America, and the first 'all black' city, March 1967.
- Letter from Rita Gatti regarding photos for IT, 20 July 196 (Rita worked on IT in its early days).
- Open letter from The Stop It Committee: Americans in Britain for U.S. Withdrawal from Vietnam, inviting Miles to participate in the Angry Arts programme, 6 May 1967.
- Cover letter from Bernard Bertschinger sending Miles the appeal ‘Persecution of Public Art’ concerning the arrest and trial of John Latham and enclosing a blank piece of paper for people to sign a petition, 1 November 1967. The appeal was displayed in Indica Bookshop.
- Letter from Nancy Gray asking for help with finding an accommodation in London, undated.
- 1968 receipt for Paul Jones’s subscription to IT.
- Clipping of a review of the New Student European Guide from the Berkeley Daily Cal, with a mention to Indica Gallery, 5 June 1967.
- The Eighth Street Bookshop business card.
- Invitation to meet Steppenwolf at Hatchetts, Piccadilly, 13 May 1967.
- Greeting card ‘The Alien’ from the Concrete Frontier, the name of Sigma in Leeds, 1967.
- Letter from Leah at EVO regarding Allen Ginsberg, the Fugs, and EVO, April 1966.
- Clipping of article by Norman Pilkington, IT writer, Busy Summer in London from LAFP, 25 August 1967.
- Clipping of article Is the Haight Segregated? from Berkeley Barb, with handwritten note by Miles 'did you want to re-write? This is too long for IT', 3 March 1967.
- Black and white photograph of Chet Helmes at the IT office, 1967 (copyright Graham Keen).
- Photocopy of an article about the IT launch party, from IT no. 2, 31 October 1966.
- IT ad rates, 1966.
- Flyer for the all night rave to launch International Times at the Roundhouse, enclosing form to order advanced tickets, 15 October 1966.
- Photomechanical transfer and photocopy of IT staff taken from Town magazine (copyright Adam Ritchie, negative lost), December 1966.
- International Times headed paper, 102 Southampton Row, London.
- Clipping of article The EVO eye is watching you from New York World Journal Tribune, 27 November 1966.
- Hand drawn Christmas/Chanuka card from Bill Levy, IT editor, 1967.
- Clipping of article Politics in the Cemetery from LAFP, 22 April 1966.
- Clipping of article Napalm warning truck is project of peace group from LAFP, 17 June 1966.
- Flyer The Death & Transfiguration of IT announcing the funeral procession to be held, as protest after the office was raided, 11 March 1967.
- Flyer Please read this notice - UFO, about the ban of drags, handed out at the UFO club, March 1967.
- Flyer and ticket (both in full colour rainbow printing) for 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, Alexandra Palace, 29 April 1967.
- Clipping of article about UFO from Hit Week 6 April 1967 [in Dutch].
- Clipping of article The Underground Press Lives from The Paper, 8 December 1966.
- Two flyers for Ptooff!, the Deviants first album.
- Clipping of article Censorship, Art & Drugs from Peace News, 7 April 1967.
- Clippings of articles from News of the World 6 August 1967, about hippies.
- Clipping of article from The People, 30 July 1967, about hippies.
- Photocopy of article 'Anti-white’ news probe by yard from The People, 4 December 1966.
- Rolling Stone magazine Christmas card, 1969.
- Happy New Year card from The Fugs, 1968.
- Invitation to Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-aid Acid Test launch party, 23 April 1967.
- Telegram inviting Miles to see Frank Zappa at Kasmin Gallery, 21 September 1968.
- Note from Anthony Fawcett on John & Yoko Ono headed paper, enclosing a photocopy of John Lennon drawing 'the performing WRIGHTS' for IT cover, 1968.
- Letter (on BIT headed paper) from Jane de Mendelsohn, asking to send books to a prisoner in Turkey, 24 September 1968.
- Open letter from the Cinetec International London to Jenny Lee MP expressing discontent with the BFI, February 1968.
- Flyer advertising a music event, 24 July 1967.
- Typescript of Portrait of a Man in a Hurry - a tribute by the ICA to Guillaume Apollinaire, enclosing handwritten note from Simon Watson Taylor, 28 July 1968.
- Photocopy of article from Daily Mirror announcing the Beatles gave Bit £1000, 19 November 1966.
- Letter from Johnny Pedersen, editor of Super Love, Denmark, 2 April 1968.
- Two postcards with psychedelic ramblings, probably from Criton Tomazos, 1968.
- Letter from Miles to Walter Bowart enclosing A report from swinging London, a copy of Miles's column for EVO, 11 January 1968.
- George Andrews autograph address, undated.
- Postcard from anonymous correspondent announcing Tim Leary’s arrival in London, 8 March [1968].
- Postcard from the Real Free Press, Amsterdam, asking for copies of IT, 1969.
- Polaroid of underground newspapers in IT office, undated.
- IT headed paper invoice, with Portobello Road address.
- Clipping of article Can YOUR kid buy this? from The People, 7 September 1968.
- Letter from A. J. Weberman, asking for Lennon’s address and advertising rates for IT, 1969.
- Osiris Visions headed paper with agreement between Osiris and ECAL about poster distribution, 6 December 1967.
- Postcard from Michael English and Angela Brown, [1969].
- Letter from Christopher Gibbs sending '500 words about John’sbook', 18 December 1969.
- Letter and postcard from Boss Goodman regarding the Deviants U.S. tour, 1969.
- Blackhill Bullshit, November 1969.
- Cover letter from Esquire sending a clipping Jerry Rubin interview, undated.
- Postcard from 'Jack', an Indica customer (addressed to Arts Lab), 20 Mar 1968.
- Note from 'Rick' at Doubleday, undated.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003252121
036-003257328
040-003257410 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89160 : The Papers of Barry Miles
Add MS 89160/5 : Barry Miles: 'Reference folders'
Add MS 89160/5/4 : Barry Miles reference folders: 'International Times and the Underground Press' - Hierarchy:
- 032-003252121[0005]/036-003257328[0004]/040-003257410
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89160
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1965
- End Date:
- 1969
- Date Range:
- 1965-1969
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- The following items were on loan to the Flat Time House London and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, for the exhibition Better Books: Art, Anarchy and Apostasy, June 2012-January 2013
- Names:
- East Village Other, American underground magazine, 1965-1972
Effective Communications Arts Ltd, poster and underground press distribution company, fl 1967-1968
Giacometti, Alberto, sculptor, painter and printmaker, 1901-1966
Helms, Chester Leo, American music promoter, called Chet, 1942-2005
International Times, magazine, 1966-1986
Latham, John Aubrey Clarendon, artist, 1921-2006
Lennon, John Winston Ono, musician, 1940-1980
Osiris Visions Ltd, poster producer, 1967-1968
Rolling Stone, pop culture magazine, 1967-
Steppenwolf, Canadian American rock band, 1961-
The Deviants, English rock band, 1967-2013
The Eighth Street Bookshop, bookshop, New York, 1947-1979
The Fugs, band, 1963-
Zappa, Frank Vincent, American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and filmmaker, 1940-1993,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110792302