Post on 11-Jun-2015
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Library CommitteeNovember 1, 2011
Courtney Smerz and Holly Mengel
Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collection Libraries
The Project
• $500,000 from the Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Archival and Special Collection” project
• 27 months to arrange, describe and make available to the public 115 “hidden” archival collections at 23 area archives and libraries
Hidden Collections
Reducing Backlog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
From PMA’s Marketing and Public Relations records
Project Team
Christiana Sarah Jenna
Work at PMA Archives
What we processed at the PMA
1. Evan Turner records2. Department of Community and
Urban Outreach records3. Marketing and Public Relations
Department records4. Stella Kramricsh records5. FOCUS archives6. Julien Levy papers
Evan Turner, Department of Community and Urban Outreach, and Marketing and Public Relations
Stella Kramrisch papers
Stella Kramrisch papers
FOCUS archives(Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the
Visual Arts)
FOCUS archives
Judith Bernstein. Horizontal, 1973
Image courtesy of the Feminist Art Base, Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (accessed online: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/)
FOCUS archives(Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the
Visual Arts)
Julien Levy papers
Portrait of Julien Levy, from “The Art Story” (www.theartstory.org/gallery-levy-julien.htm)
Julien Levy papers
Julien Levy papers
Letters from Frida Kahlo, 1938, 1940
Questions, Comments?