“A card collection is a magic carpet that takes you away from work-a-day cares to havens of relaxing quietude where you can relive the pleasures and adventures of a past day — brought to life in vivid picture and prose.”
-Jefferson R. Burdick
Thanks to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Thanks To Guinness World Records
Huge thanks to ALL the Vsauce fans who submitted their collections!
Jefferson Burdick Collection At The Met
BOOKS
Collecting: An Unruly Passion by Werner Muensterberger
Cultures Of Collecting by Roger Cardinal
To Have And To Hold: An Intimate History Of Collectors by Philipp Blom
The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions by Jaak Panksepp
ONLINE RESOURCES
A Hobby To Many, Card Collecting Was Life’s Work For One Man by Ken Belson
The Psychology Of Collecting by Mark B. McKinley
Why You Can’t Stop
Why Do We Collect Things?
Collecting Vs Hoarding
ASSET CREDITS
Specimen Jars Photo by Rolf Brecher
Westinghouse Television Commercial 1950
Honus Wagner Card Fetches $2.1 Million At Auction
Navajo Triple Weave And 12 Point Odama Dreamcatcher by Native Eye
Baseball Game and Weehawken Ferry, New York, Stock Footage By Internet Archive
Umberto Eco – I Was Always Narrating by Louisiana Channel
Compulsive Hoarding Apartment by Grap
Hoarding Living Room by Shdwwulf
Sir Hans Sloane by Stephen Slaughter, Stephencdickson
The British Museum History by BHO
Lunch boxes by nickd
Rock Collection by LookyThat
Elvis Presley’s X-Ray Auction
Maryly Snow Toothbrush Collection Photo By Luz Marina Ruiz
Special Thanks To Psychologists Joshua And Tara Clapp
VIDEO CREDITS
Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber
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Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media
VFX by Eric Langlay
Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi
Coordination By Lisa Solimeo
Select Music by Jake Chudnow
Outro Music Fathoms by Tom Peters
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Canine Cameo by Lucy
