Burdick was a genius when it came to understanding the origins of those little cards that were issued with cigarettes and other products. And from what else I've read about him he was likely very intelligent, period. But his singlemindedness towards his project of putting all those albums together for the Metropolitan Museum, and doing almost nothing else with his life for almost thirty years (?), is a little scary.
Leon- so if Burdick himself admitted the ACC was a work in progress, making a few changes is not only a good thing but something he would have encouraged. He would have respected a collector and scholar like yourself, and expected that you and others after him would find something new to add to the history.
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