Prince, Virginia. TV Clip-Sheet. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications ca. late 1950s or early 1960s to 1970s. Four issues. TV Clip Sheet was a trans interest zine which gathered scanned articles on transgender celebrity, cross dressing, and gender nonconformity in the years following new international trans visibility achieved by Christine Jorgensen.....
[Biker Subculture] Southern California biker community photo albums documenting motorcycle culture during the 1970s and 1980s, a period when custom chopper building, club rides, and regional motorcycle gatherings characterized a flourishing biker subculture in the post Vietnam era. The photographs record a network of riders with heavily customized motorcycles participating.....
Cross dressing and female impersonator publication archive ca. 1962-1970s. These small press publications were distributed in networks of transgender, cross-dressing, or otherwise gender-curious readers, providing fiction, editorials, newsletters, product advertising, and society formation notices at time when gender variance carried social, legal, and medical risk. This archive includes one issue.....
[Subculture][Motorcycles] Two Mighty Carson Alley Bikers photo albums chronicling the Southern California motorcycle subculture in the 1980s. The albums record custom motorcycle craftsmanship, organized rides including the 1985 Yuma Prison Run, and the social networks of biker subculture. The images show community among working class motorcycle enthusiasts in Southern California.....
[Biker Subculture] Carson California biker community photo albums documenting motorcycle culture, social gatherings, and everyday life of a working class Southern California riding club, 1985-1986. The albums record the social world of The Backyard Bikers, a group centered around custom motorcycles and community rides, with captions identifying some dates and.....
The Chicago Seed underground newspaper group, 1967 to 1972, documenting the changing politics and graphic language of Chicago counterculture from the psychedelic underground of the late 1960s through the antiwar, labor, prison, reproductive rights, tenant, and gay and trans organizing of the early 1970s. Founded in 1967 by Don Lewis.....
Underground women's collective anthology Wimmen’s Comix, 1972 to 1992, represented by the complete 17 issue first printing run of Wimmen’s Comix and its final spelling, Wimmin’s Comix. Founded in San Francisco by ten women cartoonists and produced through rotating editorship, the anthology established an ongoing publication channel for women whose.....
Transgender Tapestry, a run of 13 magazines spanning 1983 to 2002, trace the editorial and political development of a major U.S. transgender periodical from the Tiffany Club era of “the magazine for persons interested in transvestism & transsexualism” to the later IFGE-era language of “Celebrating the Diversity of Gender Expression.”.....
Vernacular photograph archive of California motorcycle riders, circa 1970s–1980s, documents the visual culture and group identity of American biker communities in the decades following the expansion of postwar motorcycle clubs. The photographs place riders within a regional network, likely associated with Modesto based Harley-Davidson enthusiasts, and record the central role.....
[Counterculture] Open City underground newspaper archive, an iconic Los Angeles countercultural journalism during the late 1960s expansion of the underground press and New Left activism. Open City was a weekly alternative newspaper covering politics, counterculture, and arts during the Vietnam War era. The paper gained national visibility through the involvement.....
Burroughs, William S. Junkie, 1953, published under the name William Lee, documents mid twentieth century American drug culture through a first person narrative drawn from the author’s experience with heroin use and distribution in New York. The work establishes Burroughs within the emerging Beat literary circle and precedes his later.....
Anarchist political and direct action pamphlet group from 2002 to circa 2012, documenting the circulation of historical anarchist theory alongside contemporary writing on prison abolition, militarism, feminism, foreclosure resistance, criminal justice, mutual aid, environmental activism, and conspiracy politics. Much of the group was printed or distributed by A New World.....
Underground women's collective anthology Wimmen’s Comix, eleven period issues from 1972 to 1987, documenting how feminist creators built an ongoing publication outside the male dominated underground comix network. The group comprises nos. 1 through 5 and 7 through 12, lacking only no. 6 from the opening twelve issues; it includes.....
Emmanuel Goldstein’s 2600: The Hacker Quarterly across nine issues from 2001 to 2011, documenting the movement of hacker culture from telephone systems, desktop computing, and the early commercial Internet toward broadband, wireless networks, social media, smartphones, biometrics, and electronic surveillance. Founded in 1984, 2600 developed from phone phreaking culture into.....
Various editors, California Voice: The Responsible Gay Press, 1983–1984, documenting LGBTQ+ political activism, cultural life, and public health response in San Francisco during the early years of the AIDS crisis. The material operates in Cultural/Representational Mode, illustrating how a community newspaper articulated gay identity, organized political response, and reported on.....
Mattachine Society newsletter group from 1956, documenting the practical organization of homosexual public life in San Francisco as the Society expanded its chapter structure and created forums for discussion of law, psychology, social life, and civil rights. Published during the postwar homophile movement and the concurrent Lavender Scare, the five.....
New York Peace Action Coalition. National Antiwar Convention poster. 1971. Produced in the immediate aftermath of the May Day protests, this poster documents antiwar organizing at a moment of intensified confrontation between activists and federal authority, when mass arrests in Washington, D.C. drew national attention to draft resistance and civil.....
Haight-Ashbury Free Press; Haight-Ashbury Eye; Haight Ashbury Tribune. Group of three underground newspapers published between 1967 and 1970, documenting countercultural communication systems and grassroots organizing in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. The material documents the system of alternative press networks through tabloid-format publications, revealing how activists, artists, and community members disseminated.....
Mexican satirical periodicals archive documenting popular treatments of homosexuality, masculinity, and political violence issues, “Los Pata-Rajada” and “Los Penitentes." Four issues total. Two issues devoted to “Los Lilos” and “Los Mujercitos” employ caricature and purported psychological explanations to police the boundaries of masculine behavior. Their mocking language preserves evidence of.....
Anarchist and radical political zine archive, circa 1990s to 2019, documenting the underground print networks through which historical anarchist texts circulated beside writing on contemporary labor organizing, capitalism, prisons, policing, and human rights. Sixteen zines and pamphlets move between canonical texts by Errico Malatesta and Noam Chomsky to movement literature.....
Fantasy Newsletter near consecutive nine issue run, May 1981 to February 1982, documenting the publication’s transfer from Paul and Susan Allen’s independently produced news magazine to Robert A. Collins and Florida Atlantic University during the early institutional development of fantasy and science fiction studies. Paul C. Allen had founded Fantasy.....
Short, Fast + Loud punk periodical archive, 2003 to 2014, documenting the communities that formed around hardcore, powerviolence, grindcore, thrash, and related underground music through interviews, personal columns, comics, performance photography, and writing on sexuality, identity, friendship, and participation in local and international scenes. Chris Dodge of Spazz and Slap.....
Stecyk, C.R.; Ancell, Kevin; Rodriguez, Spain; et al. Thrasher Comics. Six issues published between 1988 and 1990, documenting the convergence of skateboarding culture, punk aesthetics, and underground comics in late twentieth-century San Francisco. Produced as an extension of Thrasher Magazine, the series reflects a distinct countercultural sphere defined by anti-authoritarian.....
OZ Magazine. Archive of 5 issues from the London edition of the influential underground periodical published between 1967 and 1973, documenting the visual culture, political radicalism, and anti-authoritarian ethos of the international counterculture movement. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode, the material reflects the convergence of psychedelic art, antiwar activism.....
American counterculture magazine group from November 1969 through October 1970, documenting Evergreen Review as it brought experimental literature into direct contact with Black radical politics, the New Left, sexual liberation, environmentalism, censorship, and revolutionary cinema. Founded by Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset in 1957, Evergreen had developed by the end.....
