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[[underline]]Eastman House Collections[[/underline]]

The Trustees of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography continue to attempt to find a means of providing for their collections and keeping them in Rochester. Various local solutions are under consideration. The presidents of the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology are assessing the capacities of their institutions to help. The Smithsonian has informally been asked whether it would consider maintaining the collections in Rochester in a facility to be constructed and maintained locally. Smithsonian staff has taken the position that no discussion of any Smithsonian role is possible unless all local and State options have clearly been exhausted. Other than this overture, there have been no new developments involving the Smithsonian.