The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 8, February 23, 2003, Article 10

ARTICLE: CURATORS BUYING ONLINE

  A February 18th Associated Press article noted that museum
  curators are making the most of the Internet as a way to locate
  difficult-to-find items to fill out their collections.

  "Forget musty, dusty museum storerooms. Curators nowadays
   are digital archeologists, digging deep into the Internet for a
  touch of humanity to warm the cold slate of history.

  Using online auction searches, Bruce Johnson, a buyer for the
  Indiana Historical Society, found love letters written nearly
  100 years ago between an Indiana farmer and his girlfriend.
  He also uncovered photographs of Confederate prisoners of
  war at a camp in Indianapolis.

  "The thing that always amazes me is that this is the only way
  that I could have possibly found these particular kinds of items,"
  Johnson said.

  "There is a person in the world who is collecting just about
  anything you can think of," Endelman said. "It's just the trick
  of finding it."

  http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030218/D7P907U00.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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