According to Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images, the creation date of an artifact is made up of three components: a free-text field, which is indexed using “two numbers to delimit the beginning and end of the implied date span.” In TMS, this information is recorded in the Objects.Dated, …
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Return to Sender: Address Unknown
Outside a cubicle at the Walters Art Museum hangs an envelope from a letter, mailed from the UK, bearing the institution’s Baltimore, Maryland address and a prominent stamp “Missent to Thailand.” I’m not sure which is more amusing: that the letter was sent to Thailand, or that this happens with such frequency that the Royal …