Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library ephemera collection

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Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library ephemera collection

1816-2009

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Contains printed and visual ephemera related to drugs, drug use, sex, and counterculture collected by the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Print ephemera materials (Series I) is made up of a vast array of textual materials relating to drugs, sex, and counterculture in the United States and beyond, mainly throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. Included in this are significant amounts of counter-cultural organizations ephemera and records, as well as articles, publication, television and film scripts, interviews, and more on drug- and counterculture-related topics. Further print ephemera includes pamphlets, brochures, flyers, and promotional materials relating to drug use, drug education and anti-drug causes, legalization and decriminalization of various drugs, counterculture events and museums, and more. Additional materials relate to the writing and publication of poetry, mainly in the latter half of the twentieth century. Visual ephemera (Series II) contains a broad array of materials related to drugs, sex, and counterculture movements, including political movements and causes mainly in the latter half of the twentieth century. This includes calendars and agendas, greeting and post cards, stamps and LSD blotter papers, book covers, stickers, badges, and magnets, tickets, advertisements, and much more. Materials in this series relate to drug crimes, legalization, and drug culture, and there are items of politically-based ephemera as well, relating to the Vietnam War, George W. Bush’s presidency, Mao Tse Dong’s leadership of China, the 1968 workers’ strike in France, socialism in Germany, and more.

11.6 linear feet (17 boxes and 1 volume)

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11660864

Houghton Library

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Poland, Jefferson F., 1942-2017

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John Jefferson Poland (July 12, 1942 – November 17, 2017) better known as John Fuck Poland was an activist, co-founder of the Sexual Freedom League, and convicted child molester. Poland was born in Indiana in 1942. He became a student at Florida State University and majored in sociology. He was expelled from that university in 1960 for his integrationist work with the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE). He participated with the Freedom Riders in Florida and in June 1961 was one of the "Talla...

Psychedelic Venus Church

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In 1970, Jefferson Poland founded the Psychedelic Venus Church (PsyVen or PVC), an offshoot of the Sexual Freedom League Poland founded in 1963, with Mother Boats becoming President. He felt that the leadership of the Sexual Freedom League was becoming too bourgeois. The (entheogenic) sacrament of the Psychedelic Venus Church was marijuana and, after lighting up, at each meeting a woman was chosen to be Venus. At the beginning of services, she was placed on an altar, candles were lit on each sid...