Archives West Finding Aid

Many individual photographs have been grouped by type of item/furniture and may also be represented in one of the four portfolios that were included in the collection, and as slides. The original arrangement had duplicated groupings of photos based on the size of the photographs, but the archivist chose to house the different size photographs together based on the item type.

The three folders of wooden sculptures are loosely based on the original arrangement of the photos. They were partially grouped together in different locations amongst the original donation, so those folders have largely been separated by those original groupings.

The portfolio pages were kept in the order which they arrived in but were removed from black paper backings where possible so that adhesive materials would not damage the photographs over time. None of the portfolios were titled or dated, so the order of the portfolios was determined by the order they were found in the donation boxes. Portfolio C was originally housed in plastic sleeves, each holding 3-4 photos per page. The envelopes holding those photographs are numbered based on the original order the pages were discovered in.

Many work example slides were labeled using sticky labels. The adhesive on these slides has decayed over time and some of those labels had become detached in their original housing, and some additional labels became detached during the preservation process. Where possible the archivist has attempted to reattach these labels to the items they were originally attached to. Where this was not possible, some labels have been housed in the margins near the group of items they were found by (any pencil markings on the backs were made by the archivist in an attempt to keep them as close as possible to the items). For some labels, they were too far removed from the original items. These labels have been housed in a slide sleeve at the end of the folder.