Notebooks

Various reference files, stored in three-ring binders and always referred to as "notebooks," were compiled and maintained by the Downtown Gallery. Notebooks were among the records the Downtown Gallery loaned to the Archives of American Art for microfilming in 1957 and 1967. Between their initial microfilming and subsequent donation, additions and/or deletions were made in many notebooks. All have been refilmed; thus, this set of microfilm reflects what is now owned by the Archives of American Art. Notebooks are categorized as: American Folk Art Gallery Notebooks (5 linear feet), Artist Notebooks (22.5 linear feet), and Publicity Notebooks (5 linear feet). All contain large numbers of photographs, notes, and printed matter mounted on sheets of paper punched for three-ring binders; but over the years, many items have become detached. The contents were removed from their binders many years ago, and exact titles of some volumes may not have been recorded.