Founded in Detroit in 1954, the Archives of American Art became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1970. The Archives is the world's preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to ...

Summary: Auction catalogs from the holdings of various libraries and auction houses in the United States, borrowed for microfilming for AAA's Auction Catalog Project, 1961-1965. The majority of the ...

Summary: REELS NY59/20-NY59/29: Student registers, 1877-1905; ledgers, 1878-1889, attendance records, 1879-1903; model engagement books, 1878-1882; membership lists and members' meeting records, ...

Summary: The papers of painter Jerome Caja measure 7.9 linear feet and date from circa 1920 to 1995. The papers document his career as an artist in San Francisco through biographical material; ...

Minimal/Full Processing Interleaving: When fully processing a collection, always place interleaving paper between documents and highly acidic items such as newspapers, telegrams, or thermograph paper.

Archival and manuscript collections usually consist of a full range of formats and sizes, such as typed and handwritten correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, original and copy ...

Welcome to the Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections, a virtual repository of a substantial cross-section of the Archives' most significant collections. Since 2005, over 270 archival ...

Founded at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1954, the Archives of American Art collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.

The following chapters were originally written as part of a workflow development and processing project at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution from 2012-2015, with funding from the ...

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Summary: The papers of painter, stained glass artist, and muralist Violet Oakley measure 56.5 linear feet and date from 1841-1981. Found within the papers are biographical materials; personal and ...

The papers of Joseph Cornell were digitized in 2006 and 2009 by the Archives of American Art. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 38,634 images. Funding for the processing and ...