Box 1

Scope and Contents The “Adressen-Telefon”, a small silver address book, with Petra’s name inscribed on the front page, contains some addresses in New York, Paris, and Munich, with phone numbers, two calling or business cards, one for Hugo Vogt in Stuttgart, and a snapshot of Petra Vogt, all loose inside the volume. The second volume is a small black address book, which includes a handful of addresses and phone numbers of friends, stamped with P. and B. Abele, Stuttgart, Buchenstrasse, with a...

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Volumes include one small black and red snakeskin-patterned address book, with addresses and phone numbers, notes concerning Ira Cohen, calculations, grocery lists, and journalist writings, with a single page dated 1977, and a small black “addressen” book with many addresses containing a purple and black drawing on the inside back cover (volumes are numbered 3-4 in dealer description of notebooks).

Scope and Contents The small black diary has “Kwality” stamped on the cover, and the first entry begins on July 22, 1973, with approximately 133 pages of poems, with some celebrating births and deaths in the community. The volume includes detailed dated diary entries, including discussions of how Petra Vogt prepared for photography sessions, as well as collages that accompany writings, artworks, and small portions of an unidentified script. It also includes autograph writings by Ira Cohen in the beginning, as...

Scope and Contents The diaries include one small thick black cloth diary/calendar, with frequent journal entries for January 1974 (numbered 5 in dealer description of notebooks)and an undated small handmade diary covered in silver paper, with about forty pages of poetry and small colored artworks (numbered 7 in dealer description of notebooks). The third diary is a notebook, February-March, 1974?, with lined pages and no cover, containing approximately sixteen pages of poetry, including drawings....

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The black sketchbook contains approximately 36 pages of highly detailed rapidograph drawings with watercolor and collage. It also includes an autograph poem “XZAN,” signed by Ira Cohen, with his glyph, and a signed sketch for Petra Vogt by Dana Young laid in, with the title “Stolen Pen? Drawing for Petra” (numbered 9 in dealer description of notebooks).

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The small handmade art journal or diary in lokta paper wrappers has a collaged cover of flowers and additional lokta papers. It matches a larger book version in Oversize Folder 8. The volume contains preparations for collages, with a few collages laid in, and is stamped throughout with the Bardo Matrix woodcut of a swan that also appears in the Bardo Matrix ephemera folders (item is numbered 10 in the dealer description of notebooks).

Scope and Contents The journal has red cloth over paper wrappers, with entries dating 1977 to 1979, with extensive addresses, phone numbers and names noted (including Ira Cohen). The handwriting in this journal is not Petra Vogt’s.The journal was likely kept by a person named John who was staying with Paul Gyss and possibly Petra Vogt at some point. The person writes diaristic details, with a few poems, and includes reflections about drug use, Ted Clarke, Jimmy Shelling, Paul Gyss, George...

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The notebook has a gold foil cover and a black fleur-de-lis pattern and was likely used as a music study book, with approximately six leaves of musical annotations (likely traditional music from Nepal), and two loose photographs of unidentified musicians (numbered 15 in dealer description of notebooks).