World Crafts Council Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Patch, Margaret Merwin, 1894-1987
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content: Margaret Merwin Patch papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.2 Linear Feet (Box 5-10)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960-1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.patcmarg, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Files concerning twenty-five international conferences and meetings are arranged in rough chronological order.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Records from the World Crafts Council create the bulk of this collection. Found are administrative history documents, by-laws, financial reports and notes, annual reports, directories of officers and members, printed materials, slides and photographs, files from allied organizations, and correspondence. Letters are from Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Kenji and Chika Dujimori, Ake Huldt, and James Plaut among many others. 

There are files pertaining to twenty-five regional and general assembly meetings of the World Crafts Council which may include planning documents, correspondence, minutes, and printed material. Also found are records from the First World Crafts Exhibition (1974). Subject material from Patch's year-long travel through Africa with the World Crafts Council and her study of African crafts are also found. These files contain photographs with notes, printed material, and scattered correspondence.