Donate a collection
Most historical photographs don't survive a flood, a move, or an heir who never knew the names. The ones that do are usually rescued by accident.
If you're holding a collection — a relative's negatives, a studio's prints, an institution's forgotten drawer — we will digitize it at our expense, catalogue it properly, and keep it reachable. Your name, or the collection's, stays in the record. For good.
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Roughly what it is, how much, and where it came from. No need to count every frame — an honest estimate is plenty to start.
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At our cost, to archival standard. When you donate a collection, both the originals and the rights come to us — that's what ensures it's preserved and available to the public rather than lost.
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Catalogued, dated, and credited to you or the collection's source — permanently named in every record it appears in.
We don't buy collections, and we don't take ownership of the people in them. We take custody — the job of keeping them findable after you no longer can.
A person reads every one of these. Share what you have and we'll write back about next steps.
The best collections almost ended up in the trash. Yours doesn't have to.