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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Garage sales are for treasures. Museums are for the ages. Mayme Clayton spent a lifetime scouring one so her son could build the other.

When it's finished, curators say the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum of African American History & Culture will rival New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in size and significance.
Avery Clayton, 56, Desperate Housewives season 1-6, Scrubs boxset, is still cataloging the hundreds of thousands of things his mom collected, but is working with the Huntington Library, Art Collections, Medium series 1-6, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino on a joint project and the Clayton's first major exhibition is scheduled Oct. 24 to Jan. 4.
"Her role was to collect and acquire and his role was to create a house for it," said Sara "Sue" Hodson, curator of literary manuscripts for the Huntington. She is one of Clayton's biggest boosters and has spent many Saturdays cataloging with him and his group of volunteers.
Clayton started the project long before his mom died in 2006 of pancreatic cancer at 83.
She spent most of her career as a librarian at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Ally McBeal on dvd, Los Angel boxset es. In 1969, she helped establish the African-American Studies Center Library at UCLA.
"She was an obsessive collector, hoarder and pack rat. She went to garage sales, Married With Children series 1-11, rummage sales, flea markets, swap meets, antique stores, thrift stores, Entourage dvd, pawn shops and if somebody died, she tried to be first to get into their attic," Clayton said.
If she didn't have money, she would arrange a trade.
"She knew what to look for. There wasn't any junk. This is a smart collection. A lot of people would collect anything that was black. Mom knew what was important."
She kept a card catalog of many of her purchases, including where she found them and how much she paid.
Born in Van Buren, Ark., in 1923, Ms. Clayton graduated from high school at 16, Doctor Who dvd box set, moved to New York where she was a model and photographer's assistant and met her husband, Desperate Housewives dvd, barber Andrew Lee Clayton. In 1946, Mash box set, they moved to a small house in Los Angel boxset es. There would eventually be three sons and a divorce, but through it all there would be the collection.
Except for her music and films, everything was stuffed in a dilapidated garage next to the house or in storage units around town.
Clayton packed up 680 boxes of memorabilia from the garage, Heroes dvd, had them frozen to decontaminate pests and stop mold growth, Gossip Girl box set, then used an alcohol rub on leftover mold.
Days before his mom died, Clayton signed a $1-a-year lease on an old courthouse about 10 miles west of downtown Los Angel boxset es. The city agreed to lease the 23,000-square-foot building for the future benefit the museum promised.
Clayton started cataloging the 30, Heroes series 1-4,000 rare and out-of-print books because they took up the most room. A quarter of them have been processed.
One of the most treasured is the first book published in America by African-born Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral." It is signed and dated 1773, when she was a slave in Boston.
Hodson said a few years after Ms. Clayton bought it for $600 from a New York dealer, he asked to buy it back. "She said, 'No way.'"
In 2002, the book was appraised at $30,000, Clayton said, and "it's definitely gone up."
Ms. Clayton built the largest black film collection in the world, House M.D complete seasons, Criminal Minds complete seasons, with 1, House M.D box set 1-6,700 titles dating back to 1916. It is housed at the UCLA School of Film and Television. Those films will stay at UCLA, The Golden Girls dvd set, Clayton said, because it would cost too much to move and store them. In exchange, The office 1-6, NCIS collection, the university is doing any restoration work needed.
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Lloyd, The office complete box set, the youngest Clayton son, Criminal Minds complete seasons, is putting together the music collection from more than 9, Angel box set 1-5,500 sound recordings. Those recordings, That 70s Show box set, which include the earliest from Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith, will be moved to the library in coming months. Brother Renai is handling the sports memorabilia.
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