Paul Kagan photographs of utopian communities andpersonal papers circa 1895-circa 1989 1968-1976

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Paul Kagan photographs of utopian communities andpersonal papers circa 1895-circa 1989 1968-1976

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Chiefly photographscreated and copied by Kagan while conducting research for his book, New WorldUtopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community. The photographsdocument nineteenth- and twentieth-century utopian communities, most located inCalifornia, with others in New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Thecollection includes material that Kagan collected about utopian communities,including audiotapes of interviews and related events, as well as drawings andphotographs. The collection also includes examples of photography and graphicdesign that Kagan created for traditional and alternative newspapers, as wellas examples of some of his book reviews and other writings. A small group ofmaterial documents social action at the University of California, Berkeley, andin the San Francisco Bay area during the 1960s. Utopian communities andother groups represented in the collection include an unidentified Amishcommunity, Ananda Ashrama, Caspar Compound, Divine Light Mission, EsotericFraternity, The Farm, FundacioĢn Indra Devi, Fountaingrove, Fountain of theWorld, Halcyon, Holy City, Icaria Speranza, Kaweah Colony, Krotona (includingHappy Valley School), Lama Foundation, Lemurian Fellowship, Llano del Rio, TheLord's Land, Pisgah Faith Home, Pisgah Grande, Point Loma, RosicrucianFellowship, Questhaven Retreat, Self-Realization Golden World Colony, TableMountain Ranch, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Theosophical Society (Pasadena),Unification Church, and Vedanta Temple (Santa Barbara).

4.0 linear feet (23 boxes) + 3broadsides.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349388

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Divine Light Mission.

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Happy Valley School.

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Divine Light Mission.

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Kaweah Colony

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The Kaweah Cooperative Colony, established in 1886 and inspired by Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, was a short-lived utopian community organized in Tulare County, California. From the description of Kaweah Cooperative Colony papers, 1886-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127629 ...

Pisgah Home Movement.

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Lemurian Fellowship (Organization)

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Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

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Happy Valley School.

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Point Loma theosophical society

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Kagan, Paul, 1943-

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Paul Kagan (1943-1993), photographer and author of New World Utopias. From the description of Paul Kagan utopian communities collection, 1845-1980 (bulk 1910-1975) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79724772 From the description of Paul Kagan utopian communities collection, 1845-1980 (bulk 1910-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702152294 Author of the book New world utopias: a photographic history of the search for community, published in 1975. From the ...

Unification Church

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Rosicrucian Fellowship

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Lama Foundation

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Llano Colony (Secular community)

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Utopian socialist community formed in 1914 in Southern Calif.; moved to La. in 1917; declared bankruptcy in 1936; attempt to recover assets begun in 1959. From the description of Llano del Rio records, 1911-1969. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642341 The Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony was incorporated in 1914 by Los Angeles attorney Job Harriman, the socialist nominee for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The settlement was located in California's Ant...

University of California (1868-1952)

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Krotona Institute of Theosophy (Ojai, Calif.)

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Fundacion Indra Devi

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