Muses, The following post from Stephen Perloff to the history of photography list asks for comments. My guess is that some of y'all might wish to offer some. Please cc: to the photo list. Best. david David Haynes [log in to unmask] San Antonio --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen Perloff <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:35:06 -0500 Subject: [PhotoHistory] Comments? Message-ID: <a05100306b83159d43f68@[151.201.152.18]> I just got the following from a stock photo e-mail newsletter. Any comments from the archivists out there? DON'T MAKE THIS MISTAKE. The Maryland Historical Society recently announced the acquisition of the Leo Beachy Collection of Photographs. That's a mistake for Mr. Beachy and his heirs. [Beachy was a local Maryland photographer (1874-1927).] The collection includes 2,000 postcard prints, and 200 glass-plate negatives. Although this would have been a feather in Beachy's hat in earlier days, times have changed. And you can profit by them. No longer should you "donate" or sell your collection to a school, college, university, museum, or collector. Instead, set up a Trust Fund that will eventually digitize your photos and perpetuate sales of your photos through the Internet. This is likely to happen 75 years from now, when your so-called "outdated" images will then become of historical significance. The Trust can always lend the photos for an exhibit, lease them, or sell them, so that your heirs will benefit from your creativity. Your photos are too valuable an asset to sell as a collection to a middleman, or donate to a non-profit organization that might very well store them the way they store most of their collections - in their cellar. -- Stephen Perloff, Editor The Photo Review / The Photograph Collector 140 East Richardson Avenue, Suite 301 Langhorne, PA 19047 Phone: 215/891-0214 Fax: 215/891-9358 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.photoreview.org Any opinion expressed above is not that of my employer. Nor is it even my own opinion. Any resemblance to an opinion held by any person, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).