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Within the shadowed confines of the Ocean Liner Museum's storage facility in Manhattan, a long overdue inventory is currently under way.
Charged with the job is the indefatigable Wayne Mazzotta, recent guest curator of Blue Ribband. He is spending weekends and evenings over the winter on the task, sorting through boxes and file drawers of photographs, models, passenger lists, cap bands, postcards, menus, prints, a cornucopia of intriguing and fascinating memorabilia and ephemera that kind friends and members have donated over the past 18 years.
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One marvelous resource, now rescued from crumbling cardboard cartons, are the complete minutes of the Atlantic Conference. Its dozens of volumes provide insight into decades of North Atlantic marketing and scheduling decisions.
For the moment, Wayne is still unwrapping, recording, photographing and collating. Once he has completed that phase, he will enter every item and its particulars into a temporary Macintosh information management program. Undertaking this rewarding job, we wish him well and look forward to the finished holdings dossier.
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