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Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin - Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents (Hardcover, New)
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Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin - Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents (Hardcover, New)
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Today, government archivists and manuscript collectors are often in
conflict over government-created documents that come up for sale
out of private hands. Such manuscripts are often archival material
that escaped government control, and government archivists want
that missing material back to complete the historic record.
Collectors and dealers, however, assert that since the government
didn t take care of their documents properly at the time of their
creation, they lost the right to claim them now. This divide
between government archivists and collectors has become especially
acute for trophy documents written by a person of note or about a
well-known person or event. Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and
Replevin does not serve as a legal guide to the issues that arise
in this divide; instead, it presents both sides of the conflict and
examines them dispassionately. The book begins with an historical
review of institutional and state-sponsored collecting and the care
of historical documents in the United States. The review is
followed by a selection of tales of theft and neglect in the past.
The third chapter examines the origins and maturation of the
archival profession in the United States, and the next discusses
the phenomenon of collecting, both as a hobby and as an
institutional activity. The fifth chapter provides a general
summary of state and federal statutes on public documents in
private hands, and with that background in place, the sixth chapter
distills the perspectives of the various parties in the struggle.
The seventh presents a series of case studies developed to evoke
the complexity of these conflicts. The book concludes with steps
that holders of public documents can take to avoid conflicts, as
well as steps an archive can take to protect its collection.
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