Carter Johnson Library and Collection

The Carter/Johnson Library and Collection, Inc. is a collective history of various communities who have chosen to live and love differently. The Library, a 501(c)(3) organization, is chartered to bring this history to the communities that it serves. As the only library of its kind, its mission is to create an interactive relationship with stories from the past and present and link them to future generations. The Library collection includes thousands of leather, fetish, kink and alternate sexuality books, magazines, posters, art, newspapers, ephemera and memorabilia dating back to the 1700s. The Carter/Johnson Library and Collection is designed to put people in touch with their history by allowing them to hold it, read it, smell it and know it.The purposes for which this corporation is organized are exclusively educational, scientific and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and in this connection, to assemble and preserve for cultural and educational purposes, and make available for public adult display, historical publications related to leather, fetish, and sadomasochism erotic history.