PUBLIC COLLECTORS

This was found in a trove of personal photos that I acquired at Swap-O-Rama in Chicago and began posting at the end of April of this year. Seeing this on the top of the pile led me to buy an entire box of someone’s life but none of the other photos were quite as amazing as this one. No date but probably from the late 1960s or early 1970s based on other photos that were with it. More than anything, I want to hear this photograph and then buy it on vinyl. Whatever sounds could possibly be coming from this situation, they have got to be gnarly, freaked out, and more than a little drunk.  If you are this person and this and other photos and papers somehow got away from you, please contact me. More found photos on Public Collectors here.

A photo dated February, 1970 that must have been taken at a science fair. Make no mistake: if I ever start a band, that band will be named The Metabolistic Cockroaches. From a trove of personal photos that I acquired at Swap-O-Rama in Chicago and began posting at the end of April of this year. More found photos on Public Collectors here.

A June, 1973 photo from a large collection that I picked up at a flea market last month.

A 1973 photo from a large collection that I picked up at a flea market last month.

A page from a scrapbook created for art and other items by a girl named Theresa Frances Zumer who started Kindergarten on September 6, 1935 in Chicago.

A page from a scrapbook created for art and other items by a girl named Theresa Frances Zumer who started Kindergarten on September 6, 1935 in Chicago.

A page from a scrapbook created for art and other items by a girl named Theresa Frances Zumer who started Kindergarten on September 6, 1935 in Chicago.

A drawing of corn from a homework assignment about cereal by a young girl from around the 1930s. From the same flea market find that yielded this, this, and this.

A detail of a page from a school assignment on Fruits and Nuts, circa late 1930s to early 1940s, that I picked up at a flea market yesterday morning. Each tiny dot on the map represents 500 acres of citrus fruit according to the text. More to come from this stash of school work.

The front cover of a young girl’s school assignment, circa late 1930s to early 1940s, that is one of many papers I picked up at a flea market yesterday morning. More posts from this haul to follow.

I added a new PDF to the PDF collection on the main Public Collectors website today. This anonymous book is part of a large trove of mid-1930s material created by a child that I picked up early yesterday morning at a flea market. The material, which was practically given to me, is really crumbling so I’m going to do what I can to scan some of my favorite bits. While the cover of this yarn-bound ABC book is quite sweet, the interior pages, which have a hand-written bible quote to reference each hand-cut letter, are even better. Click the cover image to download. The whole 20 page book is just 4.8 megs.