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| The Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection In the spring of 2007, the Michael P. Smith collection of negatives, prints, papers and ephemera was acquired by The Historic New Orleans Collection, along with the copyright to his work. The Michael P. Smith Collection is housed at the Williams Research Center and will be available to the public at a future date. The Historic New Orleans Collection is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region. General and Mrs. L. Kemper Williams, collectors of Louisiana materials, established the institution in 1966 to keep their collection intact and available for research and exhibition to the public. Over the 40 years since its founding, The Historic New Orleans Collection has added to its holdings and augmented the physical structures that house them, established ambitious publishing and exhibition schedules, and developed innovative educational programs. The Williams Research Center, composed of curatorial, manuscripts, and library collections, is housed in a restored police and court building at 410 Chartres Street. Smith's photographs are also in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque National in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution and, locally, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Louisiana State Museum. The
Bergeron Studio & Gallery The Bibliotheque Nationale de France Born from fusion between the old National Library and from the Publicly-owned establishment of the Library of France, the national Library of France deploys its collections and achieves its principal missions as a national library invested in the managing and development of the inheritance to which it is entrusted. The Department of Prints and Photography, single in its kind, allows one to trace the history of the taste through the image. It preserves nearly 12,000,000 documents of varied types: prints, photographs, drawings, posters, postcards, fabric samples, labels, charts to name but a few....The collections of the department of the Prints and Photography are artistic but also of documentary interest hence their double classification. The library inherited it's first large collection of artist prints in 1667 (donated by Michel de Marolles): of works by artists (engravers, photographers, illustrators and poster artists, approximately 9,000,000 works of the XV century) and documentary works (approximately 6,000,000 images divided into methodical sections such as the History, the Portraits, the Costumes and mœurs, Topography, etc). The
Louisiana State Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met's collection ranges from treasures of Classical Antiquity like its Greek galleries and Cypriot galleries to nearly all the European masters, Egyptian—including the Temple of Dendur—African, Asian, Oceanic, Middle Eastern, Byzantine and Islamic art as well as an extensive collection of American art. "The Met is a universal museum: every category of art in every known medium from every part of the world during every epoch of recorded time is represented here and thus available for contemplation or study -- not in isolation but in comparison with other times, other cultures, and other media." The Ogden Museum of Southern Art By the early 1990s, Roger Ogden's collection was recognized by art historians and collectors as an outstanding collection of Southern Art. "With that recognition," Ogden explains, "I realized that the collection could not remain the responsibility of one individual or family, but that it should belong to the public, and that it was incumbent on me to make plans for its placement as a whole." Thanks to his vision and his generous contribution to the University of New Orleans Foundation, Roger Ogden's collection of 1200 works by some 400 artists has moved to a new home, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art on New Orleans' famous Lee Circle. The
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