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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. 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.
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