The Sibley Watson Digital Archive was initially conceived by Marjorie Barkin Searl & Lu Harper of the Memorial Art Gallery. We wish to thank the following organizations & colleagues for their support and assistance in bringing this phase of an ongoing project to fruition:
Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries:
For their generous support for digitizing images and letters.
George Eastman Museum:
Bruce Barnes, Director
Barbara Galasso, Photographer
Ken Fox, Project Archivist
Lisa Hostetler, Curator-in-Charge, Department of Photography
Nancy Kauffman Archivist, Moving Image Department
Ross Knapper, Collection Manager, Department of Photography
Lauren Sodano, Digital Asset Coordinator
Joe Struble, retired Collection Manager, Department of Photography
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester:
Jonathan Binstock, Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director
Julia Corsetti, intern, Summer 2015
Kim Hallatt, Assistant Director for Administration
Marlene Hamann-Whitmore, McPherson Director of Academic Programs
Grant Holcomb, Director Emeritus
Danielle Vander Horst, intern, Winter 2015
University of Rochester River Campus Libraries:
Mary Ann Mavrinac, Vice Provost & Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of Libraries
Phyllis Andrews, Special Collections Librarian for Modern Literature Collections, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation
Esther Arnold, Archives Assistant, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation
Lori Birrell, Special Collections Librarian for Historical Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation
Nora Dimmock, Assistant Dean for Information Technology, Research & Digital Scholarship, Administration
Joe Easterly, Digital Humanities Librarian
James Kuhn, former Director, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation
Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Assistant Dean and Joseph N. Lambert & Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
Melissa Mead, John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation
Sean Morris, Interface Designer
Andrea Reithmayr, Special Collections Librarian for Rare Books and Conservation, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation
Joshua Rompf, Digital Humanities Programmer
Blair Tinker, Research Specialist for GIS
Melinda Wallington, Senior Library Assistant, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation
Lisa Wright, Digital Format Specialist
Sibley Watson Digital Archive Advisory Committee:
Christopher Clarke, Consulting Historian
Susan Dodge Peters Daiss, Senior Associate, Memorial Art Gallery and Division of Medical Humanities & Bioethics, University of Rochester
Dale Davis, Literary executor for the estate of James Sibley Watson, Jr. & Hildegarde Lasell Watson
Anastasia Watson Markson, great-grand-daughter of Emily Sibley Watson
Jessica Marten, Curator in Charge, Memorial Art Gallery
Joan Saab, Susan B. Anthony Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, University of Rochester
Tom Slaughter, Arthur R. Miller Professor and Professor of History, University of Rochester