This collection contains some nudity, violent imagery, offensive language, and frank depictions of sex and drug use.

The Washington Free Press Collection contains issues of the underground newspaper the Washington Free Press published from 1967 to 1969. The WFP was a radical leftist independent newspaper that began publication in Washington, D.C. in 1966. An early member of the Underground Press Syndicate, it was best known for its homemade aesthetic and psychedelic illustrations and coverage of the counterculture, poverty, recreational drugs, student activism, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and police brutality. An entire issue of the paper was devoted to the October 21, 1967 anti-war demonstration later known as the Pentagon riot. The WFP was founded in 1966 as an inter-university newspaper to cover the civil rights and anti-war movements.

The paper ceased publication in the summer of 1966 after the first four issues and was resurrected in the spring of 1967 as an “underground” paper published by an editorial collective out of a communal townhouse. The first issue of the reconstituted WFP was published March 26, 1967. The WFP was Part of the Liberation News Service, which for a time operated out of the same house, and served as a wire service between underground papers across the country. The last issue of the Washington Free Press appeared mid-December 1969.