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Collecting the Counter Culture - Maggs’ Carl Williams pays a visit to Harvard’s Houghton Library

- by Susan Halas

Collecting the counterculture at Harvard.

Collecting the counterculture at Harvard.

Event Details: Wednesday, November 14, 5:30-7:30 PM

“Collecting the Counterculture:”

A talk by Carl Williams – visiting speaker from Maggs Brothers in London.

Williams remarks touch on the Beats, psychedelia, Timothy Leary, Black Panthers, Hippies, Yippies, Hell’s Angels, surrealism, Guy Debord, Aleister Crowley, William S. Burroughs, Paris May 1968, as well as other material documenting 20th- and 21st-century culture.

The event hosted by the Modern Books and Manuscripts Department of Houghton Library.

Contact Info:

According to the library’s announcement no RSVP necessary. For more information, contact Heather Cole at Houghton_modern@harvard.edu, or by phone, 617.495.2449.

Links for the Houghton Library – Harvard

Modern hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/modern.cfm

There’s a bigger site with many other specialities.

Links for Carl Williams – Maggs UK
maggsbros.tumblr.com

Tweet-tweet: @MAGGSCCULTURE

Recent Maggs counter culture catalog: DW-TW www.maggs.com/media/64389/do%20what%20thou%20wilt.pdf

Home page: Maggs Bros. Ltd.

www.maggs.com

Dazed Digital profile of Carl Williams;

www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/12843/1/cult-vip-carl-williams

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Reach AE Monthly writer Susan Halas at wailukusue@gmail.com

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