Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite circled: G / 4 col / Hippie Happen; upper right in graphite: <-; center left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: Return to Library; center left: FILED AUG 25 1967; center left stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: MON NOV - 8 1971; center left printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: --AP Photo / Back in the 1967 heyday of the San Francisco hippie movement, Charles Artman, a self-proclaimed / Boohoo (priest), led followers in a street happening in Haight-Ashbury.; center printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: AP NEWSFEATURE PHOTO / D-2269 PLEASE CREDIT / (For use Sunday, Aug. 27, with William C. / Harrison's San Francisco APN Story on the / hippy's Haight-Ashbury residents) / BIG BOOHOO / At the east end of San Francisco, Calif- / ornia's Golden Gate Park, Charles Artman, a / self-proclaimed Boohoo (priest) from the / Berkeley Bag (parish) leads participants in / a street "happening" at the Haight-Ashbury / home of the hippies. [circled in blue ink] / The 28-year-old Artman, who ran unccess- / fully for Berkeley City Councilman last April, / is part of the growing hippie district that / advocates the spiritual side of Man's nature. / Ranging from Oriental through Indian dress / and mysticism, these searching hippies are / upsetting the traditional values of their / society while finding "self". / (AP NESFEATURES [sic] PHOTO) / 4942-jb-8/8/67 stf-rwk sil209; lower left printed in black ink on applied sticker perpendicular: RETURN / TO / LIBRARY; lower left stamped in purple ink inverted: Return to Library