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Anonymous trunk donation : materials received by John Money and donated to the Kinsey Institute

Title

[Anonymous trunk donation : materials received by John Money and donated to the Kinsey Institute]

Format

Mixed Materials

Description

5 boxes

Notes

A collection of erotic materials originally stored in a locked, storage trunk by the owner. The materials are from the private and personal collection of a single individual and include homosexual and heterosexual periodicals, films, photographs, and slides; sketchbooks; sex toys; pulp fiction and other publications; and scrapbooks. Title supplied by cataloger. Access on-site by appointment only. Before using this collection, researchers must sign an agreement stating that they will not reveal or otherwise identify any individuals associated with this collection.

Contents

• Box 1: scrapbooks and films
• Box 2: pulp fiction, periodicals and other publications, loose photographs, scrapbook collection of limericks
• Box 3: sketchbooks, magazine, mailers, slides
• Box 4: films
• Box 5: sex toys.

Summary

Note from donor explaining the collection begins: "Private collection of [redacted]. He was strictly in the closet. He would never disclose his age. In the 1960s my guess was that he was in his 40s-50s. He unloaded his collection on me in the aftermath of a heart attack, as he did not want his very conventional family to know his secret after his death, and feared another heart attack. . ."