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The bulk of the collection was digitized in 2009-2010. The bulk of the 2017-2021 additions were digitized in 2020-2021.
Materials generally not digitized include duplicates, blank pages, routine financial transactions that do not document sales of artwork, and income tax records. Only the covers and title pages for many publications, such as catalogs, pamphlets, etc., have been digitized. Betty Parsons's annotated sketchbooks were selectively digitized. Slides, transparencies, and unannotated photographs of works of art, except for those donated or transferred from 2017 on, were not digitized.
Material lent for microfilming in 1968 and 1969 on 35mm microfilm reels N68/62-N68/74 and N69/105-N69/106 is available at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers, 1916-1991, bulk 1946-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The Betty Parsons Gallery records and Betty Parsons papers in the Archives of American Art were digitized in 2009. The bulk of the papers have been scanned and total 74,522 images.
Image assets for this folder have not been fully processed.
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