Guide to the Alternative Press Collection
1967-1977
Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Container List
Collection Summary
| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries |
|---|---|
| Title: | Alternative Press Collection |
| Dates: | 1967-1977 |
| Quantity: | 1.5 cubic ft (3 boxes) |
| Abstract: | Miscellaneous collection of radical, leftist, feminist and other alternative periodicals from the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Forms of Materials: | Printed materials |
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous collection of radical, leftist, feminist and other alternative periodicals from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Access and Use
Access
This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Libraries Department of Archives and Special Collections without any additional restrictions.
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Subject Headings
Subjects:
- Feminism -- Periodicals.
- Lesbians -- Periodicals.
- Student movements -- United States -- Periodicals.
- Underground press publications -- Periodicals.
- Women -- Periodicals.
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Encoding Information
Encoded by Laura Finkel and Elizabeth Clarke, November 2006.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Alternative Press Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries.
Processing Information
Processed by Laura Finkel, September 2005.
Acquisition Information
Transfered to Special Collections by Laura Finkel, September 2005 and May 2007.
Custodial History
Most of the publications were collected by Professor Jerome Badanes and abandoned in the Rombout House, Vassar College. The issues of Quash and Workforce were found in the Chapel basement in 2007.
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Container List
| Box 1 | Autopsy on the A.M.A. [Student Research Facility publication], ca. 1971 |
| Box 1 | Black and Red — No.3, Nov. 1968 |
| Box 1 | Black and Red — Worker and Student Action Committees, France, May '68, 1969 |
| Box 1 | Black and Red — The Reproduction of Daily Life, 1969 |
| Box 1 | Bread and Puppet Press — Crucifixion, Easter 1967 |
| Box 1 | Bread and Puppet Press — Mr. Miller Stories, No. 3, 1967 |
| Box 1 | Bread and Puppet Press — Bread and Puppet Newspaper, No. 3, Jan. 1967 |
| Box 1 | Caw! [Students for a Democratic Society publication] — issues 2 and 3, 1969 |
| PS501 H3 | Hanging Loose [Some bound and shelved in the Main Library, some loose and shelved in Special Collections], 1969-1974 |
| Box 1 | Heresies — Issue no. 1, Jan. 1977 |
| Box 3 | Holocene Gazette and Country Traveller, 1970 |
| Box 1 | Lesbian Feminist — Vol. 1, no. 1, 25 Aug 1973 |
| Box 1 | Lesbian Tide — Vol. 2, no. 2, July 1973 |
| Box 3 | Majority Report — 2 issues, 1974, 1975 |
| Box 3 | The Militant — 1 issue, 1972 |
| Box 1 | NACLA [North American Congress on Latin America] — The U.S. Military Apparatus, 1972 |
| Box 1 | Newletters, June 1974 |
| Box 2 | Off Our Backs — Vol.3, no.9, July-Aug 1973 |
| Box 2 | Osawatomie [Weather Underground publication] — No.1, Spring 1975 |
| Box 2 | Quash: Newsletter of the Grand Jury Project — 2 issues, 1976-1977 |
| Box 2 | The Realist: Mae Brussell's Conspiracy Newsletter, Dec 1972 |
| Box 3 | Rising Up Angry — Vol 3, nos 3-11, Vol. 4, no. 5, 7 and 8, 1972 |
| Box 2 | The Second Wave — Vol. 1, nos. 3 and 4, 1971-1972 |
| Box 2 | Shantih, Winter/Spring 1972 |
| Box 2 | Some, Winter 1973 |
| Box 2 | Stray Dog, ca. 1972-1974 |
| Box 3 | Whole Cosmep Catalog, 1973 |
| Box 3 | Whole Earth Catalog, 1969-1970 |
| Box 3 | White lightning [Spirit of Logos publication] — 2 issues, ca. 1971-1972 |
| Box 2 | Win [peace and freedom through non-violent action] — misc volumes, 1969-1974 |
| Box 2 | Workforce [Vocations for Social Change publication], Sep-Oct 1974 |