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A Letter to Members of the International Museum of Photography at George
Eastman House
In our last members' Newsletter, we were please to announce that the Museum had been given a piece of
valuable property by the Eastman Kodak Company to create an endowment for the future expenses of
operating the Museum's archives in Rochester.
This places a great challenge on all those of us who care about these collections. The Kodak gift
requires that we be ready to move into a "debt free" building by July 1989, just four short years from
now, or lose the endowment. Our Board of Trustees will soon begin a Capital Campaign to raise funds
to construct a building to house properly the collections. We hope that all of our members will join in
this effort and give generously to such a campaign.
Under the terms of the Kodak gift, however, the income from the endowment cannot be used for
the archives operating expenses until we are ready to occupy such a facility. This could be three years
or more away. In the interim the Museum will need to exercise budget restraint to live within our
present income levels. This will mean temporary dislocation of some program activities, many of
which would most likely be resumed after the endowment income becomes available for archives
operations. One of the areas in which we will need to temporarily reduce our activities is our
publication program.
We have been pleased to provide our members with an improved quarterly publication over the last
several years. Since 1983 IMAGE has won twelve awards. We are proud of this achievement. However,
we must make an effort to contain cost and will publish in 1985 only the first two issues of
Volume 28: No. 1, March 1985 (which you have already received) and this issue, No. 2. Beginning in
1986, we will publish only one issue of IMAGE a year, until the financial status of the Museum permits
a logical expansion of the publication program again.
We are sure that you will understand this temporary measure. We want to thank you for your
continued support of the Museum.
Sincerely,
Robert A. Mayer
Director
IMAGE • Volume 28 No. 2
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