Hello! My name is Sabrina Gorse, and I am happy to be serving as your Communications Coordinator for VMS. Currently, I work for Heritage Werks as an Archivist, helping install and process new archival collections that come in from Heritage Werks’ clients. Ultimately, my work supports Heritage Werks’ role as a custodian, ensuring that our clients (from corporations to non-profit cultural institutions) can continue to access and use their archival assets for years to come. Thes

Morgane Côme. "An immersive look inside 12 colorful alphabet albums used by 19th- and early 20th-century French sign painters. Beginning in the 19th century, sign painters adorned the streets and storefronts of French cities with eye-catching letters in styles ranging from the elegant to the eccentric. Large chromolithographic portfolios supplied these artisans with an array of dazzling model alphabets for use as inspiration, teaching aids and shows of technical skill. Lettre

Herman Hertzberger . "Lessons for Students in Architecture , written by Dutch architect and educator Herman Hertzberger (born 1932), was first published in 1991 as an elaborated version of lectures Hertzberger had given since 1973 at Delft University of Technology. Since its first edition, the book has become a classic for students the world over; this immensely successful volume has gone through many reprints and has also been published in Japanese, German, Italian, Portugue

Patricia Albers. "The first full biography of the innovative 'father of modern photography' vividly depicts his life and works, from Hungary to France and America, across the 20th century. Born in Budapest in 1894, André Kertész soared to star status in Jazz Age Paris, tumbled into poverty and obscurity in wartime New York, slogged through 15 years shooting for House & Garden , then improbably reemerged into the spotlight with a 1964 retrospective at New York’s Museum of Mode

Allen Phillips and Grant B. Romer. "Scenic daguerreotypes, made over 175 years ago, are extremely rare today. Named after Louis Daguerre (1787–1851), daguerreotypes are the first widely practised type of photography, quite unlike any other: the result it is both an image and object, a unique vestige of its time and place. The selection presented here is almost entirely drawn from the private collection of American collector Greg French, who built it over a 40-year period into

Philip Brookman (Editor) and Deborah Willis (Editor). "The Black Arts Movement brought together writers, filmmakers, and visual artists who were exploring ways of using art to advance civil rights and Black self-determination. This book examines the vital role of photography in the evolution of the Black Arts Movement, revealing how photographs operated across art, community building, journalism, and political messaging to contribute to the development of a distinctly Black a

This is the second of a three-part series by Aliza Leventhal and Julia Larson on enhancing archivists’ visual and technical literacy in handling complex digital objects. Foundational Components: Objects, Attributes, Blocks, and Libraries. AutoCAD image courtesy SMWM Collection, 2013-01, Environmental Design Archives, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. The first article in this series introduced common features used in most digital design soft