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Box 4

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Cardboard case of the "Jack Kerouac ROMnibus," featuring a reverse of the image of Kerouac (ID#10)

 File — Box: 4, item: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Of particular note are Lehrman’s historic images of Allen Ginsberg reading his famous poem "Howl" at readings in November 1955 in San Francisco and March 1956 in Berkeley. Also of interest are photographs made at the 3-day "Going-Away-to-Japan" party for the poet Gary Snyder in May 1956 when Snyder departed for Kyoto to pursue Zen training. That party is treated fictively in Kerouac’s book, The Dharma Bums, and many of Lehrman’s portraits are of people who were the life-models for Kerouac’s...
Dates: 1956