The exhibition, "The White House Collection of American Crafts," was organized by the National Museum of American Art. The accompanying virtual tour on the Internet was made possible by MCI.
Since the earliest days of MCI's involvement with the Internet, we have helped mold this versatile "network of networks" into a tool that serves not only scientists and academics but the broad communications interests of businesses and consumers.. We are very pleased to be able to support a program that can give potentially millions of citizens an online glimpse of the White House Collection of American Crafts."
-- Bert C. Roberts, Jr., Chairman and CEO of MCI
For further information regarding the building of this site, see the credits.
A book published by Harry N. Abrams also accompanies the exhibition. All of the fine photographs by John Bigelow Taylor on this site were commissioned by Abrams for the book, The White House Collection of American Crafts. The book is available at bookstores everywhere or can be ordered directly from Harry N. Abrams ( 1 800 345-1359 || 100 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10011).
This site is copyright the Smithsonian Institution. All photographs, audio, vdeo, and text are copyright the Smithsonian or the individual copyright holder as noted. All rights are reserved and no reuse of this material may be made without written permission.
For information not covered in this faq, contact
Mike Briggs
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Liz Selzer
FAQ
Audio support
Hardware and Software
Image viewing support
Video support
Alignment: why don't the text and graphics display "right"?
Hardware and Software
NMAA's world wide web site is running on Netscape Netsite 1.0 on a SPARC 20 server running Solaris x.x with a 10 megabit/sec. connection from the Smithsonian to SURAnet. Service to the public began 24 Aprl 1995. For further information contact:
Darryl J. Wood, Computer Services, NMAA.
Alignment
While the National Museum of American Art is committed to open standards (see our work with MESL and CIMI), we draw the line at design that requires a "jailbird lineup" up of everything off the left margin in an endless scroll in order to be completely browser independent. Unfortunately, there is no simple way, at this point, to create a layout with a wider look and feel that is consistent across browsers (except as one huge gif image). This has meant that we have optimized our layout for the Netscape Navigator, browser, although we hope that this is only obvious on a minimum number of pages. (And even with the Netscape browser, you will find differences on some pages between, say, a New York font and a Times font.)
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