Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, est. 1956

Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts records, 1955-1966

1.0 linear ft. (on 5 microfilm reels)
Reel(s): 1908-1909, 1921, 3434-3435

Correspondence, business records and printed material.

REELS 1908-1909: Business correspondence; financial records; Executive Committee minutes, memoranda, and correspondence; by-laws and minutes of the Dallas Society for Contemporary Arts; files of the Exhibitions Committee, including correspondence, reports, schedules, and minutes; exhibition catalogs and announcements; membership lists; news clippings; and correspondence and memoranda relating to the merger of the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts with the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

REEL 1921: Exhibition Committee files kept by John W. O'Boyle, including correspondence, memoranda, catalogs, and miscellaneous printed material.

REEL 3435, Gift: Correspondence and printed material, including statements of purpose and the by-lays of the organization, the plan of merger with the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, minutes of meetings, exhibition proposals, a program for a museum concert, an auction list, an exhibition catalog, and 2 clippings.

REELS 3434-3435, Loan: A history of the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts; correspondence; printed material, including exhibition announcements and catalogs, clippings, press releases and miscellaneous public relations printed material; material relating to the Dallas Musuem for Contemporary Arts Children's House, including a scrapbook; and financial records.

Location of Originals: Reels 3434-3435, Loan: Originals returned to the lender, Paul Rogers Harris, after microfilming.

Microfilmed 1980-1985 as part of AAA's Texas project. Portions of this collection formerly loaned in 1980 by DMCA founders Betty Marcus and Juanita Bromberg were donated to AAA, 1980 through 1983. Paul Harris, a former employee of DMCA loaned material on reels 3434-3435 in 1985.

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