Business Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Doll & Richards (Gallery)
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content: Doll & Richards gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Boxes 16-18; 1.9 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1866-1978, bulk 1910s-1960s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dollrich, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Business records include minutes of meetings and other general records pertaining to the day-to-day gallery operations, such as contacts cards and mailing lists, framing and matting information, labels, exhibition records, and miscellaneous lists and notes about customers and artwork. A detailed description of the gallery's operations by Wendell Zoehler is also found here. 

Six shoeboxes of index cards record contacts primarily of customers, but also artists, consignors, and businesses. Cards typically include first and last name, address, dates of contact and the initials of the Doll & Richards employee, a code in the upper right-hand corner, and notes such as occupation or date of death. For customers, the artist's name, description of artwork, date, and price of paintings bought is written on the back of the card. Cards appear to be arranged in three groups - current contacts, contacts removed from the file, and contacts which need to be filed or removed. Within these groups, the cards are in loose alphabetical order by last name or business name.