More than $15 million worth of Bob Dylan archives head to Oklahoma
Bob Dylan fans can now finally get a peek into the brilliant mind of the folk singer.
More than 6,000 archival pieces like notebooks, autographs, lyrics, recordings, film and photographs, will be put in a collection called Bob Dylan Archive in Oklahoma, the home state of Dylan's early idol Woody Guthrie. According to The New York Times, the archives date back to his earliest days recording music and include three notebooks that pull back the curtain on his songwriting process for 1975's Blood on the Tracks.
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It also includes a letter from Barbra Streisand to Dylan from 1978:
The George Kaiser Family Foundation and University of Tulsa bought the archives for an estimated $15 million to $20 million, according to The Times. Most of the pieces will be stored at the university's Helmerich Center for American Research in Tulsa.
See what the collection includes below:
The Foundation acquired similar archives from Woody Guthrie, and Dylan's archives will be stored next to his, along with Native American art pieces, according to The Times.
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