Research Catalog

Title

City of San Francisco oracle.

Publication

San Francisco : Oracle Cooperative Pub. Association, [1966-1968]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
• Griffin, Rick.

Publication Date

[Vol. 1, no.] 3 - v. 1, no. 12.

Description

1 v.

Alternative Title

• City San Franc. oracle
• City of San Francisco oracle
• Oracle
• City of Saint Francis oracle
• City of St. Francis oracle
• San Francisco oracle

Subjects

• Rock music > 1961-1970 > Analysis and appreciation
• Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996 > Portraits
• Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) > Periodicals
• Underground press publications > California > San Francisco > Periodicals
• Counterculture > California > Pictorial works
• Watts, Alan, 1915-1973 > Portraits
• Hippies > California
• Counterculture > California > Periodicals
• American newspapers > California > San Francisco
• Psychedelic art > Specimens
• Counterculture > United States > Periodicals
• Astrology > Periodicals
• Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Portraits
• Communal living > California
• Yoga > Periodicals
• Sex > Religious aspects
• New Age movement > California > Periodicals
• Grateful Dead (Musical group) Portraits
• Youth > Drug use > California
• Religion and culture > United States
• LSD (Drug) > Social aspects > United States > Periodicals
• American poetry > 20th century > Periodicals
• Tantrism
• San Francisco (Calif.) > Periodicals

Note

• Description based on surrogate; title from caption.
• V. 1, no. 6 featuring front cover color art (Christ-like figure above two unicorn heads) by Rick Griffin; back page featuring color art by Ida Griffin.
• V. 1, no. 6 with b&w photographs of Grateful Dead, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and Alan Watts in photo-montage, p. 10-11.
• V. 1, no. 6 contains article about astrology.
• V. 1, no. 10 with William S. Burroughs' article, "Academy 23, a Deconditioning," on p. 3, 21, 26.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Burroughs ZA3 S26 1967 (v. 1, no. 10)

ISSN

0474-3229

LCCN

sn 90005724

OCLC

21556756

Title

City of San Francisco oracle.

Imprint

San Francisco : Oracle Cooperative Pub. Association, [1966-1968]

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection holds v. 1, no. 6 (Feb. 1967) and two copies of v. 1, no. 10 (Oct. 1967).

Berg Collection copy of v. 1, no. 6 signed by front page artist Rick Griffin in blue pen beneath his printed name and copyright date.

Berg Collection copies of v. 1, no. 10 formerly owned by William S. Burroughs and acquired with the "Vaduz" archive in 2005. These copies are no. 17 in the "Magazine Items" section of "A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive" (London, 1973).

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Added Author

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Contributor

Griffin, Rick. Cover designer

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Former owner

Griffin, Rick. Signer

Abbreviated Title

City San Franc. oracle

Continues

San Francisco oracle (San Francisco, Calif.)

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Burroughs ZA3 S26 1967 (v. 1, no. 10)

Berg Coll+++ Counterculture S26 1967 (v. 1, no. 6)