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Corporate Records in Noncorporate Archives: A Case Study

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Abstract

When a corporation decides to formally preserve its historically valuable records, it generally has two options. It may establish an in-house archives program or it may seek to donate its records to an outside archival repository. The author considers the extent to which outside archives may serve as appropriate repositories for the records of large corporations. In doing so he draws upon the experiences of the Minnesota Historical Society in administering the archives of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways as a case study. He concludes that a good match between corporate donor and noncorporate repository is likely to be a rare occurrence and offers several cautions to corporations and repositories considering such a relationship.

How to Cite:

Meissner, D., (1990) “Corporate Records in Noncorporate Archives: A Case Study”, Archival Issues 15(1), 39–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10577