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.
This page consists of sample findings and excerpts. It is also an account of the contents of my home and digital files from my camera. If you have suggestions, have a collection you want to share, or are in Chicago and would like to see something in person, please contact me. This blog is intended as a casual, more personal supplement to the main Public Collectors website.
Public Collectors is maintained by Marc Fischer.
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Common tags: Book Cover Design • Chicago • Drawing • Flea Market • Flyers • Illustration • Prison • Records • Religious Tracts • Signage • Zines
Every time I visit my mom in Philadelphia, I try to pick through some of the stuff I still have stored in her house from the mid-late 1980s and early 90s. I’ve grabbed most of the ‘zines but there is still a lot of old correspondence which includes many letters written on the back of old show flyers. Here’s a pretty goofy flyer, probably from the late 1980s from a show at CBGB’s featuring Token Entry, Swiz, Wrecking Crew and Beyond.
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