Norman Rockwell Museum

The Norman Rockwell Museum will process and digitize five archival collections that address how illustration artists and the companies and ad agencies that employed them shaped identity in mid-20th century America. The museum will hire a temporary cataloguer to assist staff in implementing project activities, such as detail-processing of each collection, re-housing materials, digitizing, and writing finding aids. The museum will announce free access to the digital material on its website, post finding aids to online libraries, and publish a web article. The project will reveal the impact of periodicals and illustration art on cultural stereotypes, racial and cultural biases, and perceptions of success and achievement.