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The Personal Interests series (1960s-2008, 0.4 linear feet, oversize items, and digital files) includes collected materials about Armenia, posters and images of his art, and photos taken during his art exhibits and music practice.

Also found here are 40 laminated 36" x 36" plastic placards with excerpts from the Constitution and statements attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Gore Vidal, Albert Einstein, and others. The placards were created by Kevorkian by hand and taken by him to Washington, D.C. As Ava Janus explained, "The point of these was supposed to be an introduction to the average American citizen as to the importance of the Ninth Amendment that few people really know anything about. [...] Uncle was trying to show that his enemies got away with putting him into prison because that Ninth Amendment wasn't being used or enforced, and that this could happen to anyone, not just him. Uncle felt that if he used profound sayings and statements from the great and/or famous people, alive or from the past, to illustrate his point, that everyone would understand and insist that the Ninth be more used." [Excerpt is from the accompanying note, submitted by Ava Janus, to the Bentley Historical Library.]