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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel
If you have historic photographs, diaries, maps, Sears catalogs, and so on, especially written documents, sometimes historical societies want those items. They can be invaluable to researchers and can often provide support or rejection of ideas and theories that would be lost otherwise. Sometimes you can also get a tax write off. Archaeologists and historians love wacky stuff, especially if it is hard to find. Just say no to National Geographic magazines though, so many are floating around.
If you have any Asian American items I may have a home for those, they'd be a donation to a collection but I'd help you with shipping. Figurines and small ceramic items, and anything else that may have come from China, Japan, Korea, etc., especially pre and post war.
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I personally have all the photographs, and much of the genealogical or history things, and I plan to do exactly that with the items I don't need. There are many left, though, but none that are Asian-themed (except a piece of china marked Nippon!). I only took my mother's favorite fur, though.