Collector Death

CTL-E-0770 · Practice · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Death of the private collector/custodian with no succession plan: the mortality-driven window in which estates are dispersed, discarded, or sold before any institution intervenes.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-013; source research type(s): risk. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

The Crowley Company, 'Accessing the Archive: Charles Teenie Harris and the Power of Preservation' (case study) — https://thecrowleycompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CMOA-Accessing-the-Archive-Charles-Teenie-Harris-and-the-Power-of-Preservation_04_Interactive.pdf (primary source)
NPR Illinois/WUNC, 'Estate Sale-Goers Discover Treasures In Home Of Historian John Hope Franklin' (Feb 27, 2017) — https://www.nprillinois.org/2017-02-27/estate-sale-goers-discover-treasures-in-home-of-historian-john-hope-franklin

Record CTL-E-0770 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: PRESERVE-001.
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