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This site provides access to the papers of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2014. The bulk of the papers have been scanned, and total 49,453 images.

The papers of John Steuart Curry and the Curry Family in the Archives of American Art were digitized in 2008. The bulk of the papers have been scanned and total 10,919 images. Summary: The papers of ...

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 processing is defined as the activities of accessioning, arranging, describing, and properly storing archival materials according to established national standards and best practices. This ...

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 ...

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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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 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 ...