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MARGARET McCURDY JOHNSON

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OVERVIEW

Researcher and illustrations editor specializing in large, complex projects. Washington, D.C.

based with expertise researching collections at Library of Congress, National Archives, and

Smithsonian Institution. Experience with state, regional, national and foreign public and private

collections. 2006 News and Documentary Emmy Award Nominee for Outstanding Individual

Achievement in Craft: Research.

SERVICES

Research public and private still picture collections and archives

Recommend and organize large numbers of photographs, maps, graphics and documents

Determine copyright status

Order images and caption prints

Negotiate fees and permission for use

Clear rights and finalize contracts

SELECTED ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Prints and Photographs; Motion Picture; Geography and Map; Manuscript; Performing

Arts; Middle East; Hispanic; African; Periodicals; Microfilm; Law and Rare Book

Divisions; American Folklife Center

National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Still Picture; Motion Picture, Sound and Video; Cartographic and Architectural Holdings;

and Military and Civil Reference Branches; Berlin Document Center microfilm; all

Presidential Libraries

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

National Anthropological Archives; National Museum of American Art; Smithsonian

Institution Archives

U.S. Department of Defense, Washington D.C. and March AFB, California

Still Media and Motion Media Records

Naval, Army, and Marine Corps Historical Centers, Washington D.C.

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Western History Collection, Oklahoma University Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma

Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois

Several European Collections

EDUCATION

George Washington University, Washington, D.C., M.A., 1981

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Post Graduate Studies, 1974-1978

University of Texas, Austin, Texas, B.S., 1971

MARGARET McCURDY JOHNSON

SELECTED CLIENTS/PROJECTS

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Exhibition, With Malice Towards None, The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition

National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.

Books Dear First Lady. Letters to the White House (co-author); Dear Mr. President, Letters to

the Oval Office; An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks; Songcatchers;

Battlegrounds, Geography and the History of Warfare

Austin Hoyt Productions, Boston, MA

2006 Emmy Nominated PBS Documentary, American Experience: Victory in the Pacific

Diner Media, Boston, MA

PBS Documentary, The Alaskan Highway

Three BM Television, London, England

Channel 4 (British) documentaries Churchill and Hitler: The Duel; Allies at War; Napoleon; and

Dogfight; Warlords

BBC, London, England

Documentary Road to Riches

Tiger Aspect Productions, London, England

Documentaries Howard Goodall s Big Bang and Great Dates Series

Faction Films, London, England

Award winning documentary Rotha Mor an Tsaoil/The Hard Road to Klondike

Maya Vision International Ltd, London, England

Channel 4 (British) documentary for Secret History series

OR Media, Middlesex, England

Discovery Channel series Mafia

Lion Television Limited, London, England

BBC documentary Las Vegas

Atlantic Productions, London, England

BBC/PBS documentary series on American history

James Lipscomb, New York, NY

Discovery Channel documentary First Dogs

Hill and Knowlton Public Affairs Worldwide, Washington, D.C.

Book Desert Warrior, published by Harper Collins

Gale Research, Farmington Hills, MI

Books African American Almanac, Profiles in World History, Native American Tribes Exploring

Shakespeare, Dictionary of Literary Biographies, Chronology of African American History, and

Chronology of American History

Smith Sherman Books, Toronto, Canada

Book History of Cannabis

Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, NC

Permanent exhibitions

Arizona Memorial Museum Association, Guam Branch

War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Agana, Guam

Traveling exhibition depicting WWII Pacific Campaign

Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, New York

Special exhibitions

African American Museum of Southern Illinois Carbondale, IL

Exhibition, Tuskegee Airmen

Mohammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY

Permanent Exhibitions; worked with design group Formations

hotographs, maps, graphics and documents

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