ENDANGERED
COLLECTIONS
COLLECTIONS
EST. CASE FILE
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
No. 014
Masonic lodge, closed chapterRegalia, minute books, and photographs left with no custodian
At risk
Masonic lodge, closed chapterRegalia, minute books, and photographs left with no custodian
At risk
No. 013
Parish scrapbook collectionCentury of community records slated for a dumpster before intervention
Recovered
Parish scrapbook collectionCentury of community records slated for a dumpster before intervention
Recovered
No. 012
Women’s civic club archiveFounding documents and ledgers awaiting a housing plan
In review
Women’s civic club archiveFounding documents and ledgers awaiting a housing plan
In review
No. 011
Orphaned university collectionDonor materials stranded after a department reorganization
At risk
Orphaned university collectionDonor materials stranded after a department reorganization
At risk