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Re: Current 19th Century Newspaper Thinking
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- Subject: Re: Current 19th Century Newspaper Thinking
- From: Margaret Heilbrun <nyhs1@metgate.metro.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:25:21 -0800 (PST)
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The New-York Historical Society's "deacquisitioned" pamphlets were
duplicates, if not triplicates, etc., of pamphlets remaining in
the collection.
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Clifford Scheiner wrote:
> I don't know about newspapers, but the NYPL deacquisitioned thousands
> of microfilmed pre-20th century pamphlets by throwing them out
> (actually many were retrieved for private sale at a fraction of their
> real worth) and this provoked tremendous uproar. See "The Talk of the
> Town" article in THE NEW YORKER - Dec. 1997 I believe.
> The New York Historical Society deacquisitioned historical pamphlets
> at public auction and I have heard no complaints.
> C.J. Scheiner
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