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will provide an unprecedented and unlimited source of color material on American art. 

The negatives will become the property of the University of Georgia, but will be consigned to a commercial color laboratory for production and sale. However, the rights to use these negatives will be contingent upon the maintenance of high quality at a reasonable cost. To meet these ends, a continuing committee will be named, under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation, to ensure that all conditions of the contract are met. 

All sets of slides will be accompanied by a complete catalogue containing pertinent data on each slide and a brief essay covering each of the eighteen categories of the study. These essays have been written by the same specialists who have helped in selecting the objects. 

High quality production and good scholarship are not the only objectives of the Study. It seeks also to make the material available on a broad basis by keeping the sale price of the slides sufficiently low to bring them within the reach of a wide range of institutions. Thanks to the Carnegie subsidy this will be possible. The grant will cover the entire initial cost of production, including the pilot sets. Thus, the cost of the negatives, which will be considerable, will not be figured into the final price of the slides. In other words, even when the slides are put on sale, the project will in effect remain a Carnegie-sponsored enterprise. 

In order to achieve the objectives outlined above it will be necessary for