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Category: Researcher Stories

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The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: A New Book

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division, with excerpts from the Richard Morris Hunt Research Guide. How do you breathe life into a valuable but under-appreciated and complicated collection from the 1800s?  The Prints & Photographs Division was fortunate to earn the attention of Sam Watters—an exceptional historian of …

Posted in: Architecture, Drawings, Photographs, Researcher Stories

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Remembering Researcher Joe Manning, Who Helped Us Remember So Many Others

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The world lost an inspired and inspiring researcher last April, when Joe Manning died. Manning devoted many years to researching people depicted in historical photographs, especially those found in National Child Labor Committee and Farm Security Administration collections. He leaves, however, a rich legacy, not only of his findings but also of his techniques for …

Posted in: Photographs, Researcher Stories

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera