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Imagine Everything Dancing: The Barbara and Willard Morgan Papers at UCLA Library Special Collections

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2019

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"[Anthropologist Igor] Kopytoff presented his theoretical framework [of the cultural biography of things] over thirty years ago, but it still informs how I think about archives and make archival processing decisions. It has been in the front of my mind throughout the past year as I have been processing the visual materials in the Barbara and Willard Morgan papers at the UCLA Library Special Collections.

The movement theme in the content of the visual materials in the Morgan papers is just one part of the collection’s continuum of movement. Its cultural biography has been literally and figuratively moving in many ways--from its creation to acquisition to processing to what follows--and each phase has affected the next.

'Imagine everything dancing'--the collection and the dancers in Barbara’s photography--for many years to come!"

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This article was originally published in Acid Free Magazine, issue 9, in 2019.

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