"Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools," Spring 1969
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Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from Spring 1969, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the planet.
Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from Spring 1969, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the planet.
Artifact
Book
Date Made
August 1969
Subject Date
1969
Keywords
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2018.137.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 14.5 in
Width: 10.813 in
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