Jul 30, 2024 · The Grateful Dead Archive is made up of nearly a thousand boxes of documents and recordings as well as hundreds of objects, equipment, and framed art, all of which were created or collected by the members of this iconic band over the course of decades of making their music, touring, operating their business, and connecting with their fans.

Jun 18, 2020 · Fans’ love for the Grateful Dead is manifest in hundreds of letters enclosed in decorated envelopes they wrote the band between 1970 and 1995. Housed at the University of Santa Cruz, the Grateful Dead Archive features many of these letters. A lot were left by fans at Jerry Garcia’s memorial altar in Golden Gate Park in 1995.

Oct 7, 2011 · Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail (just out from Voyageur Press) serves up hundreds of examples of cool, weird, colorful, funny, deranged and highly psychedelic envelopes that were sent to the Dead’s ticket office—GDTS (Grateful Dead Ticket Sales) between 1983, when the group introduced its mail-order system, and 1995 ...

Dead Letters is the fully authorized portrayal of the Grateful Dead according to the world’s most devoted fan base: Deadheads. Beginning in their earliest days, the Grateful Dead saved...

Jan 1, 2011 · From author, rock historian, and the Dead Head of all Dead Heads, Paul Grushkin, Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail collects more than 300 of these mind-blowing envelope masterpieces, all presented in 14 thematic chapters.

Dead Letters is the fully authorized portrayal of the Grateful Dead according to the world's most devoted fan base: Deadheads. Beginning in their earliest days, the Grateful Dead saved tens of thousands of letters sent to them by Deadheads reflecting on the spectacular concerts they'd attended and requesting tickets.

Mar 5, 2015 · Remembering the Dead, Part 2 - Letters to the Dead: The Correspondence Series of the Grateful Dead Archive. When the first part of the Grateful Dead Archive arrived at UC Santa Cruz in the summer of 2008, the two most extensive series, or sections, were Press (discussed in the first blog), and Correspondence.

Oct 24, 2011 · Dead Letters is the fully authorized portrayal of the Grateful Dead according to the world’s most devoted fan base: Deadheads. Beginning in their earliest days, the Grateful Dead saved tens of thousands of letters sent to them by Deadheads reflecting on the spectacular concerts they’d attended and requesting tickets.

Dead Letters: The Very Best of Grateful Dead Fan Mail is a 2011 book by Paul Grushkin with a foreword by Bill Walton. (Published by Voyageur Press, 208 pages.)