Again, from today’s New York Times:

 

The 500 Hours of 9/11

By GLENN COLLINS

Published: May 30, 2006

 

[The article discusses the fact that many 9/11 collections are in private hands and there are few well-funded institutions to take the collections when the original collectors want/need to donate them.]

The exact number of such collections is unknown, but "there must be more than 100,000 people of one sort or another who have these materials," said Althea Bernheim, a professional archivist who has been developing a database of major ones for the Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York, which has resources for collectors at www.nycarchivists.org/surveyintro.html.

So far, the Roundtable has identified more than 260 major repositories in a program financed by New York State's Documentary Heritage Program. Some archives have thousands of artifacts and documents.

 

 

 

Barbara J. Niss

Mount Sinai Archives

Levy Library, Box 1102

1 Gustave L. Levy Place

New York, NY 10029-6574

(212) 241-7239

(212) 831-2625 (fax)

 

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