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.
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A banner for a printing business on Chicago’s West side that offers family reunion and R.I.P. shirts. Gang, drug and gun-related deaths are rampant on the West side, resulting in a small industry for portrait t-shirts worn by friends and family to remember the deceased.
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I don’t wear any of mine but when you think about it, they look cool, but they are really sad..
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Anywho, family reunions must rock where that billboard is posted bcoz I know I try to forget all about mine, ESPECIALLY...
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Sad and entirely true.
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Fascinating/sad.
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