Institutionally Dead

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

The Smithsonian’s Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative collaborated with collections managers across the Institution to surface and celebrate Grateful Dead-related images, objects, recordings, and other ephemera.

Institutionally Dead

Allen Ginsberg dancing to the Grateful Dead at a gathering of the Tribes for a "Human Be-In," Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, January 14, 1967.

Ken Kesey and the Pranksters aboard his bus, "Further", in the Great Bus Race