90th Anniversary Timeline Photographs

Collection

Identifier: PC-001

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the photographs gathered and used for a timeline exhibition for the museum's 90th anniversary in 1993. The timeline documented key people, locations, donations and events in the museum's history Photos were selected from internal museum photography and local repositories: Dallas Public Library, SMU Hamon Arts Library, and the Dallas Morning News. The exhibition was on view in the Concourse and was curated by Natalie "Schatzie" Lee.

The collection is arranged by decade and within each decade in the order in which the image was described in the timeline; timeline captions function as the title of the photograph in the description.

Dates

1903 - 1993

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for public research. Researchers must make an appointment to view this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

DMA can provide reproduction permissions for DMA photography; permission to reproduce images gathered from other repositories would need to be sought from that repository. Please contact the DMA Archives (archives@dma.org) for more information.

Extent

1.67 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

In 1993, the museum marked the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Dallas Art Association with an exhibition featuring an extensive illustrated timeline held in the concourse. The exhibition was curated by Natalie "Schatzie" Lee. The photograph collection consists of the photographs used in the exhibition timeline and those that were collected and selected for possible use in the timeline, and therefore had written captions.

Arrangement

The collection of timeline photographs are arranged by decade, as they were in the exhibition timeline. Within each decade group - 1900s-1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s - which also function as series, photos are arranged in folders containing 12-15 photos, in order and described by the captions written for the exhibition timeline. Description of the photos uses the existing caption as Title with additional desciptive information on the content of the photograph supplied by the archivist in the Description field.

Captions that describe a photograph of an artwork are not included to prevent confusion in searching. A document with all of the original captions from the exhibition and collection is attached.

One addtional series is included in the collection, the photographs in the timeline from the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts [DMCA]. In the exhibition, the DMCA photographs were included with the 1960s. This series is smaller than the others and is arranged differently. There is the section of item-based folders of photos which are primarily people and event photos. Other photos are grouped topically; this was to ensure that photos of like subjects were filed together instead of across mulitple item-based folders for more logical access.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Reprocessed Collection

Processing Information

Collection was reprocessed to follow the order of the timeline label by Hillary Bober, completed 30 September 2016.

Photographs were collected and captions were written by Natalie "Schatzie" Lee. As there was no museum archives at the time of the exhibition, all photos collected by Lee during her research were housed in decade-based boxes. Those photographs used or considered for use in the timeline exhibition had captions written. Photographs housed in boxes with the timeline photos but not having captions were removed from the timeline photograph collection during reprocessing for filing with other topic-based photograph collections.

Additional description/notes were added for DACS compliance and ArchivesSpace local usage guidelines in 2021.