Seventy-second birthday greetings from Sara to Ruth Sackner -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This humorous photographic diary was made by Sara on April 23rd, 1977, on a day she met her parents and visited art galleries in Manhattan with them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph depicts Nick Kite, one of Tom Phillips' assistants, working on a printing plate for Dante's Inferno in the Phillips' studio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph depicts Pella Erskine-Tulloch working on a bookbinding for Phillips's Dante's Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph depicts a close up view of Phillips's lithograph press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph depicts the room with filing cases in Phillips' house/studio where prints for Dante's Inferno were stored. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This photographic album was made by Sara on March 14, 1977, for Ruth Sackner's birthday and includes pictures of her family in touching and humorous situations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This family portrait was photographed by Duane Michals and titled "The Bus Stop" for the story without words told by the eight photos he selected from the many he took in front of a white New York building. As the Sacker family enters in chronological order and waits for the arrival of a bus, they appear as total strangers to each other with no communication among them. The bus arrives, they get on and it remains a mystery whether they ever made contact with each other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sara Sackner used the hieroglyphics and their letter representation on the front of this card to send a message to Ruth and Marvin Sackner, e.g., Hi, R + M! ... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This photoessay by Sara Sackner published on the Phillips web site for the first time, documents the work at Tom's studio in London during the production of the fine press book Dante's Inferno in 1980. This is vol. 6, no. 1 of recent website updates. John Pull, webmaster, writes, " I first saw Sara's photos while visiting the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry (sic) in Miami Beach. I loved the image I saw of Tom and NIck Tite reviewing the plate and was floored by the cache of prints Sara loaned me for this special exhibition, 57 in '80. Fond appreciation to Sara for her generosity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was assembled by Sara Sackner on the occasion of Marvin Sackner's 70th birthday. It contains clips from the film "Concrete" that Sara produced about the Archive. Her dedication reads, " Oh Clips!/ Speak to me/ LONG and short/ Tell me / Where you want to go!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph depicts Tom Phillips, apparently engaged in thought in his studio, while seated against a wall onto which is pinned part of his Dante's Inferno Diary. The diary is now held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.