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Archive: February 2020 (2 Posts)

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Ready for Research: Anne Mergen’s Editorial Cartoons

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Martha H. Kennedy, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Art, Prints & Photographs Division. It’s another in our blog series “Ready for Research,” which highlights collections moving out of the backlog. We’re celebrating the recent cataloging of more than 600 editorial cartoon drawings by Anne Briardy Mergen (1906-1994). …

Posted in: Cartoons, Ready for Research, Women's History

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Exploration and Discovery: Ernest Benecke Photographs in the Richard Morris Hunt Collection

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Mari Nakahara, Curator of Architecture, Design & Engineering, with Micah Messenheimer, Curator of Photography, Prints & Photographs Division, talking with researcher David R. Hanlon. I am always grateful when researchers discover treasures in unprocessed collections, the contents of which have often not been fully explored. Professor David R. …

Posted in: Photographs, Researcher Stories