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Photographs, negatives, transparencies: visual materials, 1881-2007.

Scope and Contents This record group documents the activities of the Art Department in organizing and staging an exhibition of American and foreign works of art at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis in 1904.The largest series is Correspondence, covering the years 1901-1907 and is subdivided into the following sub-series:A. Intra-departmental This is a key group of material since it reflects the department’s activities and concerns from the inner viewpoint. Especially...

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Document files are maintained for works of art acquired by the museum. They may contain any relevant information concerning acquisitions such as: correspondence relating to the object; comments by scholars; articles; photographs; conservation reports; documentation on the purchase; appraisals; information on installations, provenance, etc.

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Records documenting the declined / canceled loan of works of art by this museum to other institutions. Files contain museum facilities reports for non-SLAM institutions requesting objects to exhibit. Tnese reports include environmental, security, and staffing descriptions.

Scope and Contents The bulk of this material falls into the first series of special exhibitions, an active series. The series on Missouri exhibition and Local Artists' Groups are both inactive. The special exhibition series documents the role of the Registrar's office in the organization of temporary exhibitions and includes such information as shipping arrangements, loan forms, condition reports, conservation treatment, insurance coverage, etc. The Missouri exhibitions series contains information on the 4th...

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Records documenting the loan of works of art by this museum to other institutions. Includes: correspondence, loan agreements, shipping and insurance information, tour venues. Each file includes artist and accession number of objects on loan. There are a few files of individual loans received by this museum on exchange.

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Files concerning aspects of research projects funded by a Mellon grant. Subjects covered are research on 20th century German art, Chinese bronzes and the Oceanic collection; major concentration is on German collection.

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Records concerning the long term loan of items from the Morton D. May collection (many of which were later part of the May bequest) and other objects received by the museum as part of the May bequest. Includes: correspondence, press releases, inventory lists, photographs, condition reports, insurance values, trans-shipments, May collection loans to other institutions, bequest information, loan agreement forms.

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Incoming and outgoing receipts of artwork shipments to the Saint Louis Art Museum (formerly City Art Museum and Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts), 1889-2022.