| Photo Id# |
AAD-2815 |
| Title |
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Book Store] [graphic]. |
| Date |
[1957 Aug. 6] |
| Description |
1 photographic print : b&w. ; 17 x 12 cm. (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.) |
| Location |
Folder: Portraits-Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
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| Reproduction Rights |
Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
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| Notes |
Newscopy: "What's a dirty word? And how many of them make a dirty story? And how many dirty stories make an obscene book? And can you ban a book like that? You'll get a lot of different answers to these questions. And these questions are being raised this week, as the City of San Francisco prepares its case against Lawrence Ferlinghetti, proprietor of the City Lights Book Store, for selling a book of poems. The book is entitled 'Howl and Other Poems,' by Allan Ginsberg. The District Attorney's office on Thursday will prosecute Ferlinghetti on a charge of violating section 311 of the Penal Code, which prohibits a person from writing, composing, printing, publishing or selling 'any obscene pictures or print.' Police Capt. William Hanrahan backed up his men in their arrest of Ferlinghetti, saying, 'this book isn't fit for children to read.' The U. S. Customs office here had earlier confiscated copies of the book, but was overruled by its Washington office, which held the book not obscene." |
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Newscopy (continued): "This action, however, doesn't affect the State's charge that Section 311 has been violated by the bookseller. J. W. (Jake) Ehrlich, the high-priced trial lawyer, offered Ferlinghetti his services, and will represent him." |
| Copy Negative |
Negative #5104 |
| Subject |
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
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Portrait photographs.
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| Series |
San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
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| Source |
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.
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San Francisco News.
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