Two university repositories I worked in had boxes of these
things, and as you attest, there is absolutely no use for them. You have
the printed matter. Archivists have a really, really hard time throwing
them away though--something about all that wood and metal. I've heard all
the justifications for keeping them--"we'll use them in an exhibit", "they might
reprint the book". It ain't gonna happen. The only justifications I
can see for keeping them are if the printed matter no longer
exists, or if they were never printed and the images are highly desirable.
Otherwise, they are simply very heavy, bulky occupants of valuable
space.
Peter F. Schmid, CA
Asst. Archivist-Visual
Resources
Providence Archives
4800 37th Avenue SW
Seattle, WA
98126-2793
Tel: 206-923-4012
Fax: 206-923-4001
<mailto:pschmid@providence.org>
http://www.providence.org/phs/archives/default.htm
>-----Original
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>From: Jeffrey Makala [mailto:jmakala@WESLEYAN.EDU]
>Sent:
Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:50 PM
>To:
ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>Subject: printing cuts in a university
archives
>
>
>Does anyone out there in a university archives
have large
>collections of
>(and, more importantly, _use_ in some
interesting ways)
>university-related
>halftone image printing
blocks, or "cuts" as they say in the trade? I'm
>unsure if I want to
accept a large group of this sort of thing used to
>illustrate our alumni
magazine in the mid-c20, partly because of space
>issues, but primarily
because I can't think of a use for it
>since we have
>the finished
product.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeffrey
>
>
>
>Jeffrey
Makala
>Assistant University Archivist/Reference Librarian
>Special
Collections & Archives
>Olin Library, Wesleyan
University
860.685.3863
>252 Church
St.
860.685.2661 fax
>Middletown CT
06459
>jmakala@wesleyan.edu
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