Browse and search descriptions of nearly 900 art-related collections located in over 75 repositories in the Chicago area.
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Discover art-related archival materials located in other libraries and archival repositories.
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Donating Papers
The Archives of American Art collects primary source materials—original letters, writings, preliminary sketches, scrapbooks, photographs, financial records and the like—that have significant research value for the study of art in America.
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