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Hippie, hippie, shake : the dreams, the trips, the trials, the love-ins, the screw ups- the Sixties / Richard Neville.

Material includes documents, papers, letters, newsletters, photographs and posters concerning the history of the Down to Earth organization from 1978 to 1999.

BOX 1
1. Copies of Down to Earth News, 1978-1999. Newsletter run is incomplete. 
2. CONFESTS, Marketing study re Berri.
3. ConFest Co-ordinator's Guide.
4. Financial statements, year ended 30 June 1994.
5. Down to Earth (DTE) share list as at 24 October 1994.
6. Application for permit, ConFest 1983 at Wangaratta.
7. DTE (Vic) Annual report 1979.
8. DTE (Vic) Financial statements 30 June 1995; plus Director's report 30 October 1994.
9. DTE (Vic) Annual report 1980.
10. Minutes of Meetings, Australian Down To Earth Network (ADTEN), 1978-1995.

BOX 2
11. Mt. Oak history, A-L
12. Documents and papers concerning events at Cotter River, ACT.

BOX 3
13. Verbatim decision by Hearing Officer of Trade Marks Hearing, Ian Forno, dated 6 April 1998 re dispute between DTC (Vic) and George Schmidt re registration of Earthaven Confest trade mark usage; and, establishing Earthaven Confest.

14. Papers on French Island Festival organised by Jim Cairns, complete with copy of the legal contract as presented by George Samargis, the owner of the festival site. Gives details of the split between Jim Cairns and the DTE.

15. Festivals. Urban Alternatives program; First annual exhibition, August 1981; Glenlyon-1 ConFest; Berri ConFest; Wangaratta ConFests; Walwa ConFest; Moama ConFest 1993; Tocumwal 1994 ConFest.

16. Two 45 rpm gramophone records. Record jacket: 'Down to earth', Paul Josef,  'Friends from the Rainbow Region'.

Side one: Canberra song, Paul Joseph and friends from the Rainbow Region.
Side two: Save the trees Paul Joseph and friends from the Rainbow Region.

Side one: Down to earth, Radha Wardrop.
Side two: Spring, Graham Wardrop.

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PICTURES

1. Down to Earth, Erafest, March 20 to 22, during the Autumn Equinox 1987, Era School, Donvale.

2. Down to Earth Festival posters for: ConFest 82 Glenlyon; ConFest 86 Glenlyon (3 copies in different colours); South West ConFest Cambray 79; ConFest Nanga 79; ConFest 89 on the Murray; Down to Earth festival Jackey's Marsh 79; ConFest Tocumwal 93 (4 copies).

Down to Earth ConFest records, 1978-1999

Scrapbook compiled by Les Ego aka Adam Purple whilst serving prison sentence at Long Bay Gaol in 1967.
Subjects include: LSD, marijuana, and drug culture; articles on musician Bob Dylan; police drug raids; anti-drug campaigns; beats and beatniks; sixties fashion photo shoots; effects of drugs and drug induced hallucinations; drug smugglers; band The Rolling Stones and associations with drugs; drug STP; band The Beatles and associations with drugs; various articles and photo shoots featuring Marianne Faithfull; magazine and newspaper articles about drug addiction; Dame Margot Fonteyn; hippies and hippie culture in the US; newspaper cuttings of New 2UW Top 40; colour pictures of flowers; Allan Ginsberg; pop music; drugs on university campuses; treatment for heroin addiction; newspaper comic strips. Cuttings taken from Australian, British, and American publications including: Newsweek, Sunday Evening Post, Daily Mirror, The Listener, Time, Sun-Herald, Telegraph, The Sun; Go-Set, Sunday Telegraph.
Also includes typescript phrases and quotes produced by compiler, and index.

Psychenautics / scrapbook compiled by Les Ego

Rainbow Archives contemporary and archival film footage [motion picture].

Three to go. Episode 1, Michael / producer : Gil Brealey ; director : Peter Weir.

The flower people / by James Holledge.

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;  and photographs of speakers in the Domain, Sydney and of the 1966 Australian visit of US President Lyndon B. Johnson

BOX 1
Unpublished typescripts and carbon copies of The Vietnam Crisis, ca. 1967
Unpublished typescript of Vietnam: the History of a War-Stricken Country, Third edition, October 1965
Copies of underground press publications edited by Philip West including The Psychedelic Stir, August October November 1967, and The Australian Free Press, November 1969
Documents, mainly letter and copy of submission and transcript of evidence relating to the Select Committee on Drug Trafficking & Drug Abuse, ca. 1970
Photographs of demonstrators in the city and speakers John Webster and Dr. Ada Green in the Domain during Lyndon Baines Johnson’s visit to Sydney, ca. 1966-1967

BOX 2
Overseas radical newspapers, ca. 1973-1974
Printed periodicals ca. 1971-1973,  including first two editions of Watergate edited by Philip West with posters of cover of third edition, ca. 1973, Futile 5, 1971, Marijuana Information Transfer a  California marijuana initiatve serial, 1973 and issues of Alternative News Service issues from Australia/New Zealand, ca. 1972
Flyer for ‘The Watergate Conspiracy’, ca. 1973
Ephemera for Marijuana Institute Non 19 in California relating to Philip West campaign in USA ‘Michigan Marijuana Initiative’, ca. 1972
Records and correspondence and drafts of articles produces as Alternative News Service correspondent for Australian, European and International editions, ca. 1974-1977
Three press photographs with flyer for Alternatrive News Service, no date
Photocopies of articles relating to Marijuana, ca. 1969
Covers for Underground, Australian Free press publication, no date

BOX 3
Printed periodicals mainly photocopies of Alternative News Service and other printed underground publications, ca. 1967-1971
Typed transcript of police interview with Philip West relating to graffiti, ca. 1971
Printed publications and ephemera mainly Vietnam protest material, charge sheets relating to arrests during demonstrations and Favor News (Friends of All Vietnam Organisations), ca. 1962-1969

BOX 4
Printed underground periodicals including Alternative News Service 1971-1978,  The Australian Free Press 1967-1970, Whitlam in October 1977, Sex 1971, Chaos 1968, Adam Strips 1967, Psychedelic Stir 1967, the Fringe Element Graffiti
Printed newspapers ca. 1968-1987, including The Melbourne Tunes reflecting Philip West’s involvement in journalism ca. 1968, The Wolf City Howler ca. 1983 and Business Daily ca. 1987

BOXES 4-5
Personal letters and correspondence, postcards and greeting cards, mainly between Philip West and Kerry Johnson, ca. 1987
Records relating to Australian history periodical Aussie Almanac, ca. 1984-1987

Philip N. West personal papers, ca. 1965-1987

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Hippie, hippie, shake : the dreams, the trips, the trials, the love-ins, the screw ups- the Sixties / Richard Neville.

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Down to Earth ConFest records, 1978-1999

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Psychenautics / scrapbook compiled by Les Ego

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Rainbow Archives contemporary and archival film footage [motion picture].

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Three to go. Episode 1, Michael / producer : Gil Brealey ; director : Peter Weir.

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The flower people / by James Holledge.

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Philip N. West personal papers, ca. 1965-1987

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