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Collector and author Johan Kugelberg gives a tour of Cornell University Library's exhibition, "Anarchy in the Archives," which explores punk’s cultural and political impact from the mid-1970s to the present day.

Cornell’s punk archive began arriving in 2012, when Kugelberg donated around 3,000 items documenting punk’s emergence to the library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. The library’s punk collections – with rare posters, flyers, fanzines, recordings and photographs of iconic performers such as the Ramones, Iggy Pop and Blondie – have since grown to record the development of punk and its offshoot musical genres in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Midwest.