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Re: Permanent Deposits
>Lee raises an interesting issue. In locating donor information for
>manuscripts, I found a record that one item has been on extended loan to
>the Rosenberg Library's Galveston and Texas History Center since the
>1920s. Although it is for all practical purposes part of our
>collection, I assume that legally it belongs to the heirs of the person
>who loaned it to us.
As a donor who has given museums items with documentation classifying it as
a "permanent loan." Here is my reason. I could not use the tax write-off,
was "in effect" giving it as a donation, BUT if the museum ever closes, I
would get it back. Many museums do not stand the test of time. And it is the
newest museums that are most in need of donations.
Cheers, Joe Gertler
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