This second, deeper stack room of The Cloisters Library holds the monographs unconverted to LC, and the rest of the archival material.
This has resulted in a awesome salmagundi, the best kind of bits and pieces.
Museum administration papers, the personal papers of founder George Grey Barnard, early glass lantern slides of material held by the museum, collections of images of museum under construction, curators papers both internal and external, scholars papers. Bequests of dealers records (particularly those whose merchantry contributed to the Cloisters collection), a bequest from scholars of medieval architecture. Spools of reel to reel tape of classical music for piping through the museum halls, back when one used reel to reel technology to sidestep vinyl records skipping. Piles of loose maps in various states of repair and decay. Basically, this room is crammed with wonderful, ephemeral and very orderly treasure.
And the longest, most impressive compactus I've ever met.
