Underground zines and magazines, photographs, correspondence and interviews, ephemera, notebooks and other manuscripts, drawings, and associated publications.

Popular magazines on sale at newsstands immediately following the death of American musician and entertainer Michael Jackson on June 25, 2009. Publications include Rolling Stone, Ebony, Life, The Source, People, OK, USA Today and XXL.

Popular magazines on sale at newsstands immediately following the death of American musician and entertainer Prince on April 21, 2016. Publications include Newsweek, special commemorative edition; Essence, collector’s edition; The Source, special tribute cover; Rolling Stone, issue 1261; Rolling Stone, special collector’s edition; Ebony, commemorative issue.

156 fan letters written to Tupac Shakur within their original envelopes, the majority of which are unopened, variously address c/o Interscope Records, Atlantic Recording Corporation, and others, ca. 1995 and 442 envelopes with content relating to the Digital Underground, mostly unopened, the majority containing fan voting ballots for the Humpty Dance Awards (where fans voted for their favorite song containing a Humpty Dance sample), most addressed to The Humpty Dance Awards, 1993.