Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive

This unique archive containing 6,000 pieces has been acquired by Oklahoma institutions almost $20 million. It will become a resource for academic study, eventually displayed along “a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, a cache of Native American art and the papers of Guthrie,” 

*According to a press release, items in the archive include a notebook inscibed with lyrics circa Blood on the Tracks, Dylan’s wallet from 1966 containing paper with Johnny Cash’s address and phone number, as well as a business card from Otis Redding, the leather jacket Dylan wore at his infamous 1965 Newport Folk Festival appearance, his “earliest music recordings from 1959,” and much more*.