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Project Files contain materials produced in the creation of Minsky's art. Project files include process materials such as sketches, printing plates, leather samples, photographs of in-process and completed work, color and technique tests, wax maquettes and latex molds, and layout mock-ups. Of particular interest are files containing casting molds for projects (such as the Grosbard Bar Mitzvah or Chateau Vervaines Guestbook. There are several files that show many states of a project from beginning to end: Minsky in Bed, Minsky in London, the Chateau Vervaines Guestbook, and the American Decorated Publisher's Bindings books are good examples of this. Of note is also the Buckminster Fuller Tetrascroll project, which includes a small handmade journal containing handwritten notes on the process of construction and thoughts about the process. Adventures in Ku-Ta-Ba Wa-Do files include reel-to-reel tapes of Minsky's music that was composed for the project, in various stages of mix-down. Minsky's career included many guestbooks and other commissioned works; they can be found under the subset of Private Commissions. These are grouped together by title or the client's last name, if no other title was given. They are organized by date of creation and contain applicable correspondence about that project in addition to the process materials.