"He was a remarkable man," said Jan Faull, the BFI's archive production curator.
"All human life is there," said the BFI's national archive senior curator, Patrick Russell.
Frances Negrón-Muntaner Negrón-Muntanercurathe archive director of the university's curatorfor the Study of Rand and Etheicity, saidirectorcently acquired coflecthen was vastly different from anything founiversityEnglish-language newspaper.
Still, said the archive's curator, Nathan Salsburg, something will be lost in the move: a physical connection to the man who recorded Woody Guthrie and Muddy Waters, and the feel of being a guest in Lomax's overflowing living room, in the midst of many of the items he schlepped with him around the city to various apartments until his death in 2002.
"We feel very strongly that this is not just a way of looking at dusty, musty old drawings that have been laid to rest in an archive," co-curator Greg Goldin tells Creators.
But combing Cantor's meticulous archives, the curators unearthed paintings they didn't know existed.
All of the nearly 200 vintage prints here were mined from The New York Times's vast picture archive by Douglas Dreishpoon, curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and Alan Trachtenberg, professor of English and American studies at Yale University.
We were particularly interested in algorithms yielding low false positive rates, as we wished to use the same algorithm for semiautomatic annotation of incoming data to the ArrayExpress Archive as a curator aid.
Syracuse University has 22,000 of the cylinders in its Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, which Susan T. Stinson, the curator, called "the largest known collection outside the Library of Congress".
They raised questions about whether the telephone inventor's family had voluntarily transferred the archive to a Smithsonian curator in the mid-1950s for his personal use.
