Monday, October 22, 2007

Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian



F. Scott Fitzgerald to Charles Green Shaw, 1927 June 21. Letter : 2 p. : handwritten ; 33 x 22 cm. Charles Green Shaw papers, 1874-1979. Archives of American Art.

In February 2005, the Archives received an award of $3.6 million from the Terra Foundation for American Art to dramatically increase the accessibility of its resources. The grant is being used to fund a comprehensive, five-year program to digitize a substantial cross-section of the Archives' most important holdings. These include the papers of a highly diverse range of artists and arts-related figures, from the 18th century to the present. At the end of the project, an estimated 1.6 million digital files will be available to the public.

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