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Call Number:
MSS 17
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Shirley Smith, Richard
Title(s):
"The tower of boxes": slides of collages.
Date:
1960s?
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series V: Ephemera
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 64
Provenance:
Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
35mm slides of mixed media collages to illustrate the story of "The tower of boxes." The slides are numbered in pen and black ink. Several are also inscribed with the title, and two are inscribed "Dennis Dobson pbr." Shirley Smith illustrated several works published by Dobson in the mid-1960s, but there is no evidence that "The tower of boxes" was ever published.
Physical Description:
15 35mm slides
Genre:
Collages (visual works), Transparencies, and Color
Finding Aid Title:
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5884.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396367
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396367?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1