1967: A Year in the Collections
1967 was a landmark year bridging early ’60s pop sensibility with an emerging hippie culture. The "Summer of Love" brought young people and wannabes to San Francisco with their shared interest in Eastern religions, communal living, and immersive light shows. It was a banner year for music with Jimi Hendrix performing at the first Monterey Pop Festival, The Doors releasing their first album, and Aretha Franklin releasing the enduring hit “Respect.” To see more art of the ’60s music scene, go to Smithsonian Insider’s Snapshot featuring posters from the "Summer of Love" in the Smithsonian collections.
1967 was the first year of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Coming together on the National Mall from all over the U.S., 58 traditional craftspeople demonstrated their artistry and 32 musical and dance groups performed at the open-air event. Mountain banjo-pickers and ballad singers, Chinese lion dancers, Indian sand painters, basket and rug weavers, New Orleans jazz bands, and a Bohemian hammer dulcimer band from Texas combined with a host of participants from rural and urban areas of the country.
The summer of 1967 was also known as the "Long Hot Summer," witnessing racial unrest in American cities such as Detroit, Newark, and Cincinnati. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “Beyond Vietnam” brought awareness to the volatile subject of the U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
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Richard Brautigan reading at Gino & Carlo
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Admit One
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- 1967
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Flyer for a screening of films by John Chamberlain
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- 1967 Feb.
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Granat Multicolor Positive
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- 1967
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The Brown Box Program Cards, 1967–68
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- 1967
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Paiyakamu (Hano Clown) kachina
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- 1967
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J. Edgar Hoover
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- 1967
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- National Portrait Gallery 34
- Smithsonian American Art Museum 20
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 18
- National Museum of American History 18
- National Museum of African American History and Culture 12
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 11
- Archives of American Art 10
- National Museum of the American Indian 4
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept. 2
- National Air and Space Museum 2
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection 34
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection 20
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection 18
- Graphic Arts 15
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection 12
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department 11
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection 11
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- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment 8
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