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Re: Acquisition



Does the Conference Board have an archives? If so, CB might have an interest
in this collection. I think CB is also in the Big Apple or environs.

Sharon Lee Butcher
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
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Arnold AFB, TN  37389-3212
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Sokolow [SMTP:daniel_sokolow@MCGRAW-HILL.COM]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 8:48 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Acquisition
>
> From: Daniel Sokolow@MCGRAW-HILL on 09/29/2000 09:47 AM
>
>
> To:   archives@listserv.muohio.edu
> cc:
> Subject:  Acquisition
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I have a potential gold mine for an interested archives with holdings in
> corporate/business history.  I've been in contact with a donor who has
> been in
> the photography business for over 50 years, and he is heading towards
> retirement.  He's got a collection of negatives from his work (as I
> understand,
> over 100,000 negs) photographing officers of hundreds of corporations,
> many of
> them famous, and many of them ending up as CEO.
>
> I have no particular connection to this kind of collection, but it came
> across
> my desk & he and I both hate the idea of all this work ending up in the
> garbage.
> If there is someone out there with an interest in this acquisition, which
> I
> think would be a donation rather than a sale, please contact me off-list
> to
> express your interest.
>
> He is based in New York City, and the only caveat to the donation is that
> he is
> considering using the collection to write a coffee table-style book, so I
> suppose that would have to be worked out in advance.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> DS
>
>
> Daniel Sokolow
> Corporate Archivist
> The McGraw-Hill Companies
> 1221 Avenue of the Americas
> New York, NY 10020
> daniel_sokolow@mcgraw-hill.com
>
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