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Timothy Leary collection
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RC0637
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1961-1967 (Creation)
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3 cm of textual records
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Name of creator
(1920-1996)
Biographical history
Timothy Leary was born 22 October 1920 in Springfield, Massachusetts. In the 1950s and 1960s he taught psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. He was a proponent of the drug culture in the 1960s and experimented with consciousness-altering drugs such as LSD.
A prolific author, he wrote an autobiography, Flashbacks (1983). He died on 31 May 1996.
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The collection consists of articles by and interviews with Leary.
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The collection was acquired in the 1970s.
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No further accruals are expected.
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RC0637
