You have touched on a curator vs. archivist controversy. From a curator's
standpoint I lament the breaking apart of a photoraph album. What a
fascinating artifact of one's life! The stories it might tell!. I believe
that the instinct to rip it apart to "organize the photos" can be solved by
creating a working file of duplicate photographs that are maintained in
proper archival storage. I am sure that we shall hear from an archivist on
this matter.
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Beatrice Ann Hulsberg