PHILANTHROPY
Since 1982, Dr. Burns has donated thousands of historic photographs to art, museum, library, and university collections around the world.
Recipients of these images include:
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Museum of American Folk Art, New York
• National Museum of Health & Medicine
• Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego
• Oakland Museum of California
• The Bronx Museum of the Arts
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• McMullen Museum of Art, Boston
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Center of Contemporary History, Wyoming
• The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica
• Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore
• Green-wood Cemetery Historic Association, Brooklyn, New York
• Columbia College, Chicago
• American Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, New York
• South Street Seaport Museum, New York
• Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design, New York
• National Arts Club, New York
• And many more…