Common Contracts

Burton Historical Collection Gift and Endowment

Burton Historical Collection Gift and Endowment • October 5th, 2003

• Contract Type
  Burton Historical Collection Gift and Endowment
• Filed
  October 5th, 2003

This 1914 gift agreement, in combination with the 1921 endowment agreement, makes it clear that the Burton Historical Collection was to be kept open to the public, that it would be catalogued (indexed), that the Detroit Public Library would keep it separate and distinct from the rest of the library, that the Detroit Public Library would add to the collection, and that the endowment can only be used to pay for historical materials, not supplies, equipment, staff, travel, etc. The historical materials must be books, periodicals, newspaper, pamphlets, and manuscripts relating to American and Canadian history.