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Gentlefolk,

Hello, I am Ken Fieth,  Metropolitan Archivist for Nashville and Davidson
County, Tennessee.  We are a division of the Nashville Public Library. The
Library has recently acquired the entire archive of the Nashville Banner
newspaper. The Banner was in operation from 1875 to 1998. There are 1,073
five-drawer file cabinets of records in three series, Clippings, Photographs
and Negatives.  The Archives has the bound papers from 1875-1952.

The Archives has been given charge of the negatives. They span 1936-1998 and
consist of approximately 546,000 images. They are indexed by date from 1955
to 1995.

Here are my questions for your consideration:

1.  Anyone out there have a similar Newspaper collection?

2.  We have a long range goal to produce a contact print of every image.  At
present, we are pursuing a grant to contact print the   first 15,000. All
the negatives will be placed in archival quality sleeves/boxes and stored in
our temperature/humidity        controlled vault. Any comments or
suggestions on this goal?

3.  We plan to digitize selected images (perhaps 500) for inclusion on the
Nashville Library web site. Any thoughts on this?

4.  Would your print fees be graduated between private and commercial use?

5.  Any thoughts on how to preserve hundreds of thousands of clippings aside
from microfilming or photocopying on acid-free  paper?

Your thoughts and comments are most welcome and appreciated,

C. Kenneth Fieth, C.A.
Metropolitan Archivist for
Nashville & Davidson County

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