NEW YORK—The estate of the late 20th century photographer Diane Arbus has presented the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her complete archives—including photographic equipment, diary pages, books, and family pictures all shown as part of the museum's Arbus retrospective in 2005—as a gift, reports the New York Times.

In addition, the museum will receive hundreds of early photographs, negatives and contact sheets of some 7,500 rolls of film, and hundreds of personally annotated print sleeves. The museum has also purchased 20 of the artist's most important photographs, including Russian Midget Friends in a Living Room on 100th Street, N.Y.C. and Woman with a Veil on Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C., from the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, which represents her estate, managed by her daughters, Amy and Doon.