[78-L] Large University Throwing away records?

[David Lennick]

Aaaaaaaak!

Okay, got that out of my system..and I'm sure it's not unusual, whenever space 
is needed for something "more important". About 5 years ago I hauled away a 
couple of thousand 78s from Hobart-William Smith College in Geneva NY. They 
weren't free but they were the next best thing, about 3 for a buck, and most of 
this stuff had been part of a Carnegie Collection that had hardly been played. 
But at least in this case, a dealer was notified and he called a collector (me) 
and a few other people got in on the deal.

dl

Ronald Lees wrote:
> I went to look at a "small" 78 collection last week and when I arrived the
> seller told me that her father just recently picked these records out of a
> dumpster at Harvard. I started looking at them and many of them had stickers
> on the sleeves showing archive and catalog numbers. In addition there were
> many acetates of Harvard choirs, bands conductors etc. as well as a few "Ivy
> League" 78s of the Harvard University Bands.
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> I couldn't believe that a university such as Harvard (or any) would be
> throwing out records. I spoke with the sellers father for a few minutes
> before I left and he told me that Harvard was going digital and when the
> people he was working with (I think he was working construction on site) saw
> the records in the dumpsters they were all scrambling to get their hands on
> some. He was only able to get a few hundred but there were some nice records
> there.a few blues some real nice jazz and classical and of course some
> broken records as well.
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> Has anybody heard of a similar situation before with a university?
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> Ron
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