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RAIN: Proctor & Gamble



I found this story a bit confusing:

Adweek 11/14/01
Is advertising art? A Smithsonian show fuels the debate
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/bpiaw/20011114/ad/_b_h1_is_advertising_art_a_sm
ithsonian_show_fuels_the_debate_h1_b__1.html


"At P&G, it is archivist Ed Rider's job to preserve his company's ads. When
the 120th anniversary of the first Ivory soap ad came up this year, Rider
thought it time to find a place where the public could have access to the
collection. He felt the Smithsonian would place the Ivory brand in a broad
context of American culture. He also knew the Museum of American History's
archivist, so he picked up the phone."

P&G has an archives - but the archivist feels that these materials would be
better off at the Smithsonian?  is the P&G archives closed to the public?
or desperately underfunded?  or focused more on records management than on
historical archives?  It seems to me that an archivist who actively works
to place the records of his/her archives in another institution will soon
work him/herself out of a job.

Am I missing something here?

Lisa, in a pretty quiet downtown Houston ;)


Lisa May
Archivist
Diocese of Galveston-Houston

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