Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tam, Reuben
setName: label: See more items in
content: Reuben Tam papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.9 Linear Feet (Boxes 7-8)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tamreub, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Scrapbook pages have been removed from fragile binders and placed into archival folders, maintaining the original page order. Scrapbooks were numbered by Reuben Tam and are in chronological order.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of the series has been digitized, except for a few pages of duplicates.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains eight scrapbooks, documenting 40 years of Reuben Tam's career as an artist in New York and Maine. Included in the scrapbooks are newspaper clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, event invitations, membership cards, and letters from Downtown Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Institute, Brooklyn Museum, and other galleries and art organizations. Three loose scrapbook pages appear to be from scrapbooks not found in this collection.