Pacific Street Films

Pacific Street Films is an independent film company that began producing social and political documentary films in 1969. It began as the Pacific Street Film Collective, and its founders were active in the student anti-war movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Politically, they identified themselves as anarchists, and it was out of this identification that their interest in the history of anarchism and anarchists grew, as well as their production of several films of this subject: "Free Voice of Labor--The Jewish Anarchists" and "Anarchism in America". Both films are part of the Video Collection on the History of Labor and Radicalism that is housed in New York University's Avery Fisher Media Center. In the course of researching and producing these films on anarchism, they collected photographs (as well as film footage and oral histories).

The photographs in this collection represent a part of these photographs. Most were donated to Pacific Street Films by the subjects themselves or their friends, relatives, or political allies. A number of the individuals whose photographs appear in this collection were interviewed for either or both of the films.

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