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

MLMSS 8758

fonds

ca. 1965-1987

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Ephemera, Photographs

402495

0.83 metres of textual material (5 boxes)

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 controversy in book form. In the last years he worked as a night news editor at SBS dealing with international stories

Reference:
Library correspondence file

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War protest movements; literary papers relating to his book, Vietnam : the history of a war-stricken country and his unpublished The Vietnam crisis; and photographs of speakers in the Domain, Sydney and of the 1966 Australian visit of US President Lyndon B. Johnson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Unpublished typescripts and carbon copies of The Vietnam Crisis, ca. 1967
Unpublished typescript of Vietnam: the History of a War-Stricken Country, Third edition, October 1965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

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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