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Association of Curators Project Oral History Interviews, 1983

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Reminiscences of Margaret Brown Klapthor covers her role as a curator at NMAH, including: the importance of artifacts to history; how to develop a collecting policy; her role on the Collections Committee; deaccessioning policies; curator/donor relationships; early duties in the Division of History, especially for the First Ladies Hall and later the White House china and political campaign collections; curatorial planning for exhibits; documentation of artifacts; and recollections of donors and potential donors, c. 1943-1983.
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