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    Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.


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    Marion Greenwood, June 4, 1940 Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, 1935-1942. Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution

    Hard Times: 1929-1939

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    Cover of the Archives of American Art Journal, Volume 48, Nos. 3-4

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    Archives of American Art Journal explores architecture and design

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