The Research Library creates finding aids for some of its archival and visual resource collections. A "finding aid" describes the scope and contents of a collection and provides an inventory of materials (manuscripts, papers, pictures, etc.) within the collection. Links to those finding aids are listed here in alphabetical order. Please note that these are Special Collections finding aids. Access Institutional Archives finding aids from the Institutional Archives web page. For a comprehensive search of the Research Library's holdings, including special collections, or to request physical materials on site, consult the Research Library Catalog. Click here for the Research Library's access policy.
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| Akerström, Åke, 1902- |
Title: Ake Åkerström papers The Åke Åkerström papers record the scholarly career of this Swedish classical archaeologist. Åkerström’s research interests and publications ranged from architectural terracottas in Asia Minor to Etruscan tomb typology to Mycenaean pottery in Greece, and this breadth is reflected in the research notes, photographs, postcards, drawings, correspondence, manuscripts, and typescripts that constitute the Åkerström papers. The archive also includes a substantial amount of material that originated with Lennart Kjellberg and Axel W. Persson, earlier scholars whose work Åkerström continued. |
| Alloway, Lawrence, 1926- |
Title: Lawrence Alloway papers Lawrence Alloway was a British born art critic active in the New York art scene from 1960 until his death in 1990. An early champion of post-war American art, he coined the term “Pop Art.” The archive consists of correspondence with his wife, the artist Sylvia Sleigh, work files, manuscripts and clippings, personal documents, and many photographs and slides of contemporary art. |
| Antin, David |
Title: David Antin papers The papers of performance artist, experimental poet, curator, and critic David Antin include extensive correspondence, forty years of diaries, published and unpublished manuscripts, working notes, teaching files, and over 300 audiotapes and videos of lectures and performances. In particular, the archive documents Antin’s “talk pieces” which were his unique means of fusing spoken poetry with academic lectures. |
| Arntz, Wilhelm F. |
Title: Wilhelm Arntz papers Comprehensive research collection on twentieth century art, especially German Expressionism, compiled by the art expert Wilhelm Friedrich Arntz. A vast portion of the collection consists of research files on individual artists. Of particular interest are files concerning the so-called degenerate art campaign by the Nazis and the recovery of confiscated artwork after the World war II. Extensive material documents Arntz's professional activities. |
| Arthur Tooth & Sons |
Title: Arthur Tooth & Sons
stock inventories and accounts. Art dealer, based in London. Records comprise an incomplete series of stock inventories of the main London branch of the firm, 1871-1941, and 2 volumes from the New York branch, 1906-1924. |
| Asher, Betty |
Title: Betty Asher papers The papers of art collector and dealer Betty Asher document the Los Angeles art scene from circa 1960 to 1990, though most comprehensively in the 1970s, through photographs, artist files, and more than three hundred posters. Correspondence, photographs and other documents provide information about Asher's family history and the process by which she built her art collection. Included in the papers are her collections of postcards and other ephemera. |
| Association Connaissance de l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine (ACHAC) |
Title: ACHAC collection
A consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussion of race, iconography, and the colonial and post-colonial periods of Africa and Europe. The ACHAC collection documents the influence of French colonialism, both on Africa and on France itself, as represented in images produced and distributed through the media of French popular culture as well as in the personal photographs of European residents of the African colonies. Some materials concern Belgian and German colonies. |
