Photograph albums, in my experience, are most valuable as objects of accumulation. The individual images may be valuable as records of specific individuals or places, but removing them from their context--in this case, an album--is much like taking the illustrations from a book and filing them alphabetically by subject. The album is an object, too, after all; you lose that object by dismantling it into its component parts. Jenni Rodda, Curator Visual Resources Collections Institute of Fine Arts 1 East 78th Street New York, NY 10021 (212) 772-5872, fax (212) 772-5807, [log in to unmask]