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"Deceased members files" containing correspondence about Academy and Institute business from about 800 deceased members (similar correspondence from living members is kept in an active file in the Academy and Institute's office), and minutes and scrapbooks from the beginning of the organization to the present.

ca. 110 cubic ft.

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American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

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The National Institute of Arts and Letters (founded 1898) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (founded 1904) merged in 1976 to form the present organization. Members are elected annually from the fields of art, literature, and music and include painters, sculptors, print-makers, composers, novelists, poets, historians, biographers, critics, playwrights, architects, and essayists. Honorary members include artists from foreign countries as well as American dancers, photographers, publishe...