{"value"=>"<p>The first series consists of biographical information about the two brothers as well as their joint career. An interview conducted with them by the International Black Photographers in 1982 is included, along with news clippings and printed articles. There is also a scrapbook of news clippings containing many of the photographs they took for the <span class=\"title\">New York Amsterdam News</span> and the <span class=\"title\">Pittsburgh Courier</span>, some articles about them, and Kentucky newspapers in which the brothers were featured or articles which interested them (1933-1948). One folder of printed material concerns their photography studio in Harlem. Their television and sound careers are represented by lists of equipment used in their work in the United States and Spain, instructions from the networks, and newsletters of the Motion Picture Studio Local 52, in which the twins were featured. Morgan's early interest in sound is demonstrated by correspondence regarding the purchase of sound equipment for the installation of a studio in their photograph studio, 1957-1959. His sound work for a television series about President Harry S. Truman (1963) is represented by the script with technical instructions. The collection includes information regarding Morgan's coverage of the 1972 Democratic and Republican National Conventions as well as many television specials.</p> <p> Exhibitions of the Smith brothers' photographs at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the University of Kentucky Art Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution are documented by planning material, exhibition catalogs, and news clippings (1988-1996). The 1995 film <span class=\"title\">M and M Smith: For Posterity's Sake</span> by Heather Lyons and Nikky Finney, and the book <span class=\"title\">Visual Journey: Harlem and D.C. in the Thirties and Forties</span>, 1996, edited by Deborah Willis and Jane Lusaka, are documented in this series. Also included is printed material collected by the twins about their friend, Romare Bearden, with whom they shared studio space, as well as on other performers, writers, and individuals. The Smiths' involvement in needlework is demonstrated by articles (with accompanying correspondence) showing the patterns they created and sold to such magazines as <span class=\"title\">McCalls's Needlework and Crafts</span> and <span class=\"title\">Good Housekeeping Needlework</span>, 1972-1988.</p>"}