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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joe2007, post: 1624409, member: 1262&quot;]On other social media sites you hear so often that the families of the deceased don&#039;t want copies of many of the photographs that are left behind and many are left to the family historian in giant piles, unidentified, and unloved or are worse thrown out or donated to the local thrift store who likely disposes of them as unsellable. Many of my generation, if they try to preserve history at all, try to digitize it which is not a good solution because hard drives fail, passwords get misplaced, or the hosting company goes out of business and everything is usually lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think we should all support local historical societies since they can preserve some, obviously not all since many of them are overwhelmed with a constant tidal wave of donations and not a enough staff to sort them or space to preserve them. Libraries may be another outlet for preservation, I know my local library has an extensive postcard collection at the main branch. University&#039;s also may play a pivotal role as custodians of local history since they have special collections, archives, cheap labor in the form of researchers/student interns, and ample endowments. Actually I think collectors and resellers play a pivotal role in preserving and tending the history of the past centuries. I know I have likely saved some items from the landfill. Hopefully we can ride it out until our items are better looked upon and society finds they are worthy of preserving.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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