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Original mid-1980s professional editing archive belonging to Judith Rice Millon, covering approximately 1984 through 1987.
The original file folder is handwritten “Other Editings” and contains a substantial stack of typed correspondence, handwritten working notes, invoices, receipts, purchase orders, proposed contracts, proofreading instructions, and other records connected with museum, art-history, and publication projects.
Material visible in the archive includes:
• National Gallery of Art correspondence, purchase orders, editing instructions, and payment records concerning the Kaufman Furniture Catalogue
• Records relating to editing services for a 40th Biennial Catalogue
• Textile Museum invoice and operating-account paperwork
• Youth Suicide National Center publication-consultation proposal and billing records
• American Academy in Rome letter signed by Sophie C. Consagra concerning the editing of a Fikret manuscript
• Pre-Columbian and Primitive Arts correspondence from Elizabeth H. Boone
• CIHA/CASVA program-booklet consultation records
• Docent-handbook copyediting invoice
• Handwritten financial notes, proofreading comments, receipts, and supporting paperwork
• Multiple Judith Rice Millon signatures, initials, corrections, and annotations
This group offers a detailed look at the pre-digital editorial process behind museum publications and scholarly catalogues. The typed letters, handwritten corrections, paper invoices, and institutional purchase orders document the coordination that took place among editors, authors, museums, and printing services before a publication went to press.
The archive contains a sizable quantity of material, but an exact individual sheet count has not been verified. Everything housed in this folder and shown in the photographs is included and will remain together as one archival lot.
A strong research or collecting piece for anyone interested in National Gallery of Art history, museum publishing, American decorative arts, editorial archives, Washington, D.C. cultural institutions, or original paper ephemera.
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