Roles

The people involved with our collection have had a total of 116 roles and this is page 1 of 4

Our cataloguers talk about roles as a way to describe how those responsible for a work were involved in its creation.

A single object may have multiple people, in a variety of different roles, associated with it. Different curatorial departments use descriptive terms in different ways. Over time, this creates tremendous diversity in the vocabulary that appears in collection records. We are currently working to reconcile these differences.
  • There are
  • 98 production related roles and
  • 18 donor related roles
  • Donor 2,870 people had this role and were involved with 81,752 objects.
  • Designer 3,420 people had this role and were involved with 21,475 objects.
  • Cataloguer 171 people had this role and were involved with 13,720 objects.
  • Vendor 604 people had this role and were involved with 13,078 objects.
  • Manufacturer 1,735 people had this role and were involved with 9,503 objects.
  • Bequestor 62 people had this role and were involved with 8,275 objects.
  • Artist 1,145 people had this role and were involved with 6,828 objects.
  • Office of 28 people had this role and were involved with 3,034 objects.
  • Maker 953 people had this role and were involved with 2,826 objects.
  • Fund 33 people had this role and were involved with 2,751 objects.
  • Architect 128 people had this role and were involved with 2,029 objects.
  • Client 445 people had this role and were involved with 1,698 objects.
  • For 183 people had this role and were involved with 1,132 objects.
  • Producer 272 people had this role and were involved with 957 objects.
  • Draftsman 99 people had this role and were involved with 757 objects.
  • Company 178 people had this role and were involved with 699 objects.
  • Publisher 188 people had this role and were involved with 602 objects.
  • Weaver 59 people had this role and were involved with 537 objects.
  • Firm 70 people had this role and were involved with 490 objects.
  • Design Director 28 people had this role and were involved with 474 objects.
  • Embroiderer 419 people had this role and were involved wit