Institutions which contain records which are primary sources for the artistic culture of mankind or some section thereof. Architecture@ (19) Documentary Photography@ (36) Ethnomusicology@ (16) Film (30) 1. American Comedy Archives - Archives held at Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, containing primary source material on the history, craft, and art of comedy. Features oral history interviews with comedy writers, producers, and performers. 2. Archive of Contemporary Music - America's largest collection of poular recordings with over 1.6 million discs. A research facility providing information on all aspects of popular music. 3. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution - World's largest primary source collection of the visual arts in America, with 14 million items. 4. Bradford Textile Archive - Over 4,000 items, including fabric samples, pattern publications and cards, and periodicals. Part of Bradford College. 5. Contemporary Fashion Archive - An international project in which five European fashion institutions join forces to establish an information network in fashion design, composed of a digital archive and local documentation centres at the different institutions. 6. Mukul Dey Archives - A private archive at Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, of the work, collection and papers of pioneer Indian graphic artist Mukul Dey. Biography, gallery, details of access. 7. Shubert Archive - Documents the business and artistic records of the theater-owning Shubert Brothers and the Shubert Organization, held by the Shubert Foundation at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City. 8. The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research - Contains manuscripts, films, photographs and graphics relating to the entertainment industry, held in Madison. 9. William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz - Tulane University collection including oral histories, recorded music, photographs and film, sheet music and orchestrations, and manuscripts related to New Orleans jazz. 10. Archive of Turkish Oral Literature - Full-text digital archive containing materials on Turkish folklore, history, literature, ethnography, from the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University. 11. Archives of African American Music and Culture - Includes oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, and educational broadcast programs, at Indiana University in Bloomington. 12. Chicago Jazz Archive - Collection of sheet music, recordings, photographs and stock arrangements, focusing on "Chicago style" jazz. Part of the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library.

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