Philip N. West personal papers, ca. 1965-1987
Philip N. West personal papers, ca. 1965-1987
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Date
ca. 1965-1987
Call Numbers
MLMSS 8758
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Physical Description
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0.83 metres of textual material (5 boxes)
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Fonds
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Copyright status : In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
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Scope and Contents
Contents
This collection includes papers concerning West's involvement in various overseas and Australian underground press publications such as Psychedlic stir and Alternate news service; marijuana; Vietnam War protest movements; literary papers relating to his book, Vietnam : the history of a war-stricken country and his unpublished The Vietnam crisis;...
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Full title
Philip N. West personal papers, ca. 1965-1987
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Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts Unprocessed eRecords Project 2012-2013
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Philip Norman West, 1994
Administrative / Biographical history
Philip West (1947-1994) was most likely one of the first underground countercultural journalists in Sydney. He published Psychedelic Stir and similar small magazines and newsletters from 1967. He later edited the Alternate News Service both in Australia and from overseas as well as being the first publisher to document the Pentagon Papers controver...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 8758
Record Identifier
92e0L33Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92e0L33Y
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Reference code
402495
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