Grateful Dead Archive News

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Exhibit

The Grateful Dead Archive is delighted to participate in the Rock and

Roll Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit, “Grateful Dead: The Long Strange

Trip.” In addition to loaning nearly one hundred items for the

exhibit, the Archive helped provide intellectual and historical

context for the items and worked extensively with Howard Kramer to

help draft the exhibit text. We’re excited to be sharing the treasures

of the Archive with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the thousands

of visitors who will make the trip to Cleveland.

For more information on the exhibit click here.

Grateful Dead Archive Receives New Latvala Donation

(22) 10-in. reels; (17) 7-inch reels; Technics 1506 reel-to-reel recorder; 0.3 linear feet of files (clippings, correspondence and ephemera). Gift of Rich and Carol Latvala.

The Grateful Dead Archive is honored to announce the final accrual for the Dick Latvala Collection, a vital affiliated collection in the larger Grateful Dead Archive. Personally delivered to UC Santa Cruz’s McHenry Library by Latvala’s son Rich, this generous gift completes the Latvala Collection with a number of important recordings, many in Dick’s inimitably hand-decorated boxes, along with a cache of files. For more information about this wonderful addition to the Archive, please see our blog, at: http://deadcentral.blogspot.com/