The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 17, April 24, 2005, Article 1

ANS PHOTOFILES DESTROYED?

According to Jim Spilman, founder of The Colonial Newsletter
Foundation, who wrote this week in the AMNUMSOC-l Yahoo!
mailing list, some photo archives at the American Numismatic
Society in New York have recently been destroyed. He writes:

"The entire historic set of photofile negatives has been destroyed.
Apparently all that remain are a few 35mm color slides made
within the past ten years, or so.

This loss apparently includes all of the 8"x10" negatives, the
4"x5" negatives including their manila paper envelope sleeves
with unique notations on the reverses -- usually in the handwriting
of the person who submitted the coins for examination -- plus all
of the black and white 35mm strip and roll negatives.

The most historically valuable of these negatives and their sleeves
were those 4"x5" size made in the 1940 to 1970 era of the major
numismatic discoveries of the time. Much of this which was the
work of Eric P. Newman and Sidney Noe and Damon G.
Douglas are now GONE."

[Somebody, say it ain't so! Can any of our readers shed
some more light on the status of the photofiles? -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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