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The bulk of Series 18: Artist Files was digitized in 2020. Items not digitized include some printed material, such as catalogs which are available online through other institutions, and material which was not digitized due to fragility.
A small portion of the collection is available on 35mm microfilm at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan including several photographs of dinners and the 1924 annual exhibition jury (reel N738); handwritten transcriptions of minute books of treasurers' reports, 1825-1919, meetings of members and committees of the Academy and other institutions, associations and societies, transcribed (incomplete) by Academician George W. Maynard (reels 798-799); a ledger of the accounts of the Trustees of the National Academy of Design, "Trust No. 2," 1854-1860 (reel 3161), a student register of the Antique School, 1826-1892, and a Student Register of the Life School, 1835-1897 (reel 5051). Not all microfilmed materials were donated.
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National Academy of Design records, 1817-2012. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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