Did you know that while the Archives of American Art holds more than 30 million letters, photographs, diaries, and other archival documents, our original collecting focus was microfilm?
Our founders intended for the Archives to be a central research point for American Art history and sought out microfilm from museums, libraries, and other organizations connections to the visual arts in the United States. For many years interlibrary loan allowed us to make microfilmed collections available to researchers all over the world. Now, technology enables to digitize individual microfilm reels on demand. Learn more about requesting microfilm at s.si.edu/DOD. #shorts
