A registry for the overlooked
Some collections have no one left to speak for them.
Endangered Collections works with fraternal groups, clubs, congregations, and community organizations to find, assess, and save the archives that history was about to lose — the lodge minute books in a basement, the parish records with no successor, the scrapbooks nobody claimed. Storing a collection is not the same as preserving it. We close that gap.
Open case file
Case number No. 08
United Commercial TravelersHeadquarters building sold; founding documents, charters and photos need home
Recovered
No. 12
Parish scrapbook collectionCentury of community records slated for a dumpster before intervention
Recovered
Case number: No. 011
Masonic Lodge, Building SoldRegalia, minute books, ledgers, and photographs from closed groups
At risk