Series I: Catalogue

Records pertaining to the development, research, planning, publicity, related programming, and presentation of the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue. See each series for details:

Series I: Catalogue Materials related to the exhibition catalogue edited by Julius Bryant and Susan Weber. Includes outlines and drafts, author files, and photography reproduction files.

Series II: Objects and Checklists Working checklists and object groupings from different stages of exhibition development. Includes preliminary checklists and object information for both the book and exhibition.

Series III: Installation and Design Design and installation plans, models, and instructions.

Series IV: Exhibition Planning Meeting notes, correspondence, and curator notes on exhibition themes, design, and object research.

Series V: Interpretation Gallery text, object labels, wall panels and graphics.

Series VI: Loans and Registrar Files related to loan objects and lenders. Includes loan letters, inquiries, and other correspondence.

Series VII: Press and Publicity Press, publicity, and promotional materials including clippings, opening invitations, posters, press releases and brochures.

Series VIII: Programs Materials documenting exhibition-related public programs as well as the 2018 academic symposium. Includes listings, mailings, posters, and event programs.

Series IX: V&A Installation Materials from the exhibition’s installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Includes press releases, design plans, interpretive text and labels, and photographs.

Series X: Research Consists mainly of reproductions of primary source material related to Kipling’s life, his extended family and his son, the poet Rudyard Kipling, as well as his work as a curator and artist. These reproduced selections were grouped thematically by the project team and their original order has largely been maintained.

This series also includes auxiliary research, including guides to collections, summaries of holdings, transcriptions, and annotated notes. It includes original site photographs relating to Kipling’s life and work.

For a more detailed list of research files, see Series X: Research in this finding aid.