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Harry Smith,  corner of 12th Street and First Ave,  New York, Fall 1987.  Photo: Brian Graham "Hermetic film-maker, archivist, bibliophile, painter Harry Smith stayed in my apartment in the little music room for nine months most of 1985, he'd broken his leg a few weeks after he moved out of the hotel Breslin shut down for reconstruction. He spent months recording ambient sounds of the Lower East Side come in thru my Manhattan windows from miles around.”   Photo:  Brian Graham, caption Allen Ginsberg.

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Harry Smith contact sheet of the classic “transforming milk into milk” photo, captioned by Allen as:   "Harry Smith, Painter, film-maker, universal philosopher folkloric archaeologist, bibliographer or bibliophile, American folk music anthologist, archivist, Hermetic whiz & Alchemist, transforming milk into milk, his last day's residence at Breslin Hotel, Broadway & 28th Street Manhattan, January 12, 1985. [photos: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate]

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Harry Smith, painter, archivist, anthropologist, film-maker & hermetic alchemist,  his last week at Breslin Hotel 28th & Broadway Manhattan, January 12, 1985, transforming milk into milk. (Photo & Caption: Allen Ginsberg) Remembering  Harry Smith, who passed away 29 years ago today at the Chelsea Hotel.   & a heads up to all the heads, THE HARRY SMITH B-SIDES has just been released by Dust-to-Digital, “A box set containing the flip side of 78-rpm records that Harry Smith included on the Anthology of American Folk Music.”  a true labor of love some 16 years in the making. #harrysmith #harrysmitharchives @harrysmitharchives @DustToDigital #allenginsberg #hotelbreslin  #anthologyofamericanfolkmusic  @americanfolkmusic (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIHAVraBTBx/?igshid=f8ahqd7pmlz5

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Anne Waldman “orator poet co-director Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics” & Harry Smith “archive-genius painter filmmaker”, Naropa University, July 1990. Harry’d been resident alchemist at Naropa 2 years by then and was soon to return to New York. (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #annewaldman #fastspeakingwoman #girlpower #penguinpoets #poetry #harrysmith #anthologyofamericanfolkmusic #alchemy #smithsonianfolkways #poetsofinstagram #americanpoetry #americanmagus #harrysmitharchives #naropaswp #kerouacschool @fastspeakingmusic @annewaldman @edwinlefevre (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6nzFV9h_D5/?igshid=1sm3725t4ryjn

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Anne Waldman “orator poet co-director Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics” & Harry Smith “archive-genius painter filmmaker”, Naropa University, July 1990. Harry’d been resident alchemist at Naropa several years by then but was soon to return to New York.  (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #annewaldman #fastspeakingwoman #girlpower #penguinpoets #poetry #harrysmith #anthologyofamericanfolmusic #alchemy #smithsonianfolkways #poetsofinstagram #americanpoetry #americanmagus #harrysmitharchives #naropaswp #kerouacschool (at Naropa University)

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Harry smith enjoying life's blossoms and a cigarette at Kitchen table, apple juice at hand and a folder of his designs under his elbow, portrait of first soviet Cheka Secret Police Chief on piano in guest room where he'd stayed eight months the year before, East 12th Street Manhattan. August 3, 1986. (photo & Caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #harrysmith #harrysmitharchives #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #ethnomusicologist #avantgardefilm #anthologyofamericanfolkmusic #smithsonianfolkways #animators #harrysmitharchives #ethnomusicology (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQG1uLrnNw/?utm_medium=tumblr