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The Chicago Seed Vol. 6 No. 10 Radical Newspaper Press 1971

The Seed
( The Chicago Seed )
An underground radical newspaper from the 1960's-1970's


Vol. 6 No. 10
Year: 1971
The cover and back are full color printing.
Size: approx. 12" x 19" Open
Condition: fine with very minor chipping at the edges of the paper. The colors are bold and strong giving the same impression as it had when it was originally published. Please see the images for details.

The Seed had reviews, columns, classified, information on community based organizations for health and resources and art.
I have photographed the pages to give you a overview of the contents and art. Please see the images provided.

A Small Bio of Seed (from wikipedia):
"Seed was an underground newspaper launched by artist Don Lewis and Earl Segal (aka the Mole), owner of the Molehole, a local poster shop, and published biweekly in Chicago, Illinois from May 1967 to 1974; there were 121 issues published in all. Disagreements between Lewis and Segal led to its purchase by Harry Dewar, a graphic designer and Colin Pearlson, a photographer, who thought it had commercial potential. Lester Dore took over the art direction when Don Lewis moved to New York to work for Screw magazine. Skeets Millard, a young photographer and community organizer who was publishing the Chicago edition of Kaleidoscope, joined the Seed staff in 1969, at a time when all of the original founders were gone and there was no one working on the paper who had been there more than 12 months; Mike Abrahamson was running the paper in Abe Peck's absence.[1] Jim Roslof, Karl Heinz-Meschbach, Paul Zmiewski, Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch, Peter Solt, and other 60s artists contributed to what was called one of the most beautiful underground press publications of its time."


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