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This image gallery represents
only a small subset of Archival holdings at the Archives -- Freer Gallery
of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Only a small portion of the collection
has been digitized at the present time. The Archives holdings include
original documentation to further the study of the late 19th and early
20th century American art collected by Charles Lang Freer. Materials in
the Archives are rich and diverse, and include the personal and professional
papers of preeminent art historians, archaeologists, artists, dealers,
and collectors. Forming a treasure trove of raw material for analysis
are letters, writings and journals, scrapbooks, clippings, drawings and
sketchbooks, financial material, rubbings and squeezes of inscriptions,
photographs, oral history interviews, and motion picture film. The collections
include over 125,000 images, ranging from rare salt prints of the 1850s
to contemporary ilfochromes of the 1990s. Holdings in the Archives amount
to nearly 1,000 cubic feet, and are contained in over 140 collections
with materials that date from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Most collections are available for use by appointment in the Archives
reference room.
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