Public Collectors

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Here’s one way inquiring minds educate themselves:

Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.

Here’s a (colorful but extreme NSFW) sample: Adult Comics From Mexico: Collection of Marc Fischer, Chicago, IL, USA