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Business Men as Collectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Henrietta M. Larson
Affiliation:
Harvard University.

Extract

Business men have been notable collectors. Perhaps more than any other group, they have been able to exercise the universal acquisitive propensity of mankind. They have had both the financial means to buy the objects they wanted and the contacts that made it practicable to collect.

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Other
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1944

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References

1 For a discussion of what to save from such records see R. M. Hower's The Preservation of Business Records, published by the Business Historical Society. Free copies of this pamphlet, which is now in its fourth printing, are still available. An Experiment in the Retention and Preservation of Corporate Records by Carl H. McKenzie, explains in detail the application of record-preservation in a specific firm; published as a supplement to the BULLETIN in February, 1943, this, also, is still in demand throughout the country. Members who care to have extra copies of these pamphlets for their own use or for distribution to others may have them upon request.