Philadelphia Museum of Art

Library CommitteeNovember 1, 2011

Courtney Smerz and Holly Mengel

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collection Libraries

The Project

• $500,000 from the Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Archival and Special Collection” project

• 27 months to arrange, describe and make available to the public 115 “hidden” archival collections at 23 area archives and libraries

Hidden Collections

Reducing Backlog

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

From PMA’s Marketing and Public Relations records

Project Team

Christiana Sarah Jenna

Work at PMA Archives

Finding AidsPACSCL FINDING AIDShttp://findingaids.pacscl.org

Reflections on Work at PMA

Project Website and Bloghttp://clir.pacscl.org

What we processed at the PMA

1. Evan Turner records2. Department of Community and

Urban Outreach records3. Marketing and Public Relations

Department records4. Stella Kramricsh records5. FOCUS archives6. Julien Levy papers

Evan Turner, Department of Community and Urban Outreach, and Marketing and Public Relations

Stella Kramrisch papers

Stella Kramrisch papers

FOCUS archives(Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the

Visual Arts)

FOCUS archives

Judith Bernstein. Horizontal, 1973

Image courtesy of the Feminist Art Base, Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (accessed online: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/)

FOCUS archives(Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the

Visual Arts)

Julien Levy papers

Portrait of Julien Levy, from “The Art Story” (www.theartstory.org/gallery-levy-julien.htm)

Julien Levy papers

Julien Levy papers

Letters from Frida Kahlo, 1938, 1940

Questions, Comments?