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Occupy artifacts now collectibles

In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, Jean Ashton,

Photo credit: AP | In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, Jean Ashton, left, library director at the New-York Historical Society, and Matthew Murphy, the library's head of cataloging, display part of a growing collection of Occupy Wall Street items, in New York.

Occupy Wall Street may still be working to shake the notion it represents a passing outburst of rage, but some establishment institutions have already decided the movement's artifacts are worthy of historic preservation.

More than a half-dozen major museums and organizations from the Smithsonian Institution to the New-York Historical Society have been avidly collecting materials produced by...

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