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    Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.


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    Rome and Egypt 1962-63, Scrapbook. Adolf Ferdinand Konrad papers, 1962-2002. Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution

    Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Archives of American Art

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    Finding aids for Gertrude Abercrombie, Byron Gallery, John DeWitt, Hassel Smith and Louis Wiesenberg



    Archives Receives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories

    $250,000 from the Save America’s Treasures initiative will help preserve historic interviews
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