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Highlights from the Archives

The most recent multimedia project shows digital images of one of the most popular photo albums in the Archives's collections: The 1927 photograph album of the New York residence (photographs by Ira W. Martin, Frick Art Reference Library). For more information, see: Multimedia: The New York Residence.

Education: From the Archives

	Adelaide and Henry Clay Frick on their wedding trip, Boston 1882

The Frick family kept careful records of life at One East 70th Street. The Education Department pulled together various documents from the Archives to illustrate various aspects of daily life through a sample of original documents from the archives of The Frick Collection.

Other features include slideshows of Frick's early years, building The Frick Collection, and acquiring Frick's art collections.

For more information, see: Education: About the Frick: Archives & History.

Historic Frick Family Motion Pictures

In 1918, Helen Clay Frick contracted with a photographer to film her family at Eagle Rock, the Frick summer estate in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts. In 2001, a project to reformat and digitize these films was completed. In conjunction with the Archives Department, the Conservation Department determined the reformatting and digitizing specifications and oversaw the completion of the work through several outside vendors. The films were copied onto polyester film stock, transferred to digital Beta SP tape, and then burned onto DVD.

Movie of the Frick family, 1918		Other media: (Windows Media .mpg 4.7 MB) or Mac format (Quicktime file .mov 3.6 MB)

Digitization of Negatives and Prints from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation (HCFF) Archives

The Helen Clay Frick Foundation Archives is one of the projects preserved at The Frick Collection in the Frick Art Reference Library. The Conservation Department was given the responsibility of preserving the HCFF Archives’ visual materials in 2000. Since that time, more than 5,000 nitrate, glass and acetate negatives have been digitized. A program to scan photographs in the Archive is currently underway, and a number of images from photograph albums have been scanned to satisfy reader requests. For more information, see Digital Imaging Lab: Projects.

Broken glass plate negatives can be scanned and the images restored. To see the restored image, roll your cursor on top of this fractured image.