"Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools," Spring 1969

Summary

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

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

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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