Michael Travis Costume Design Collection
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- Creators:
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Travis, Michael
Lavdas, George
- Dates:
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1947-1986
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15 Cubic feet (35 boxes, 1 map-folder
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1347
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains approximately 2,500 costume designs in colored pencil and pastels, on tissue paper mounted on mat boards. The designs were created for entertainers such as Liberace, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Dionne Warwick, the Fifth Dimension, Nancy Sinatra, and others. Some were created for the television show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
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Covette, Ricki
Jewell, Irene
- Dates:
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1950 - 1980
- Size:
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1.25 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1335
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Six scrapbooks documenting the Burlesque career of Irene Jewell (stage name:Ricki Covette), who was billed as "The World's Tallest Exotic Dancer" at 6'8". The albums contain clippings; letters; certiicates; photographs, includng photographs of her act; ephemera, such as postcards, travel brochures, postcards and decals, from her travels; advertisem...
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King, D. Ward
- Dates:
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1902-2005
- Size:
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0.75 Cubic feet ( 2 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1332
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, publications and correspondence related to D. Ward King's invention the King Road Drag, or the Split-Oak drag, which improved rural travel in the early 20th century by introducing a simple design and low-effort system for grading poor-quality roads. The King Road Drag was promoted heavily across the United States and Canada via the "Good Roads Campaign" originally sponsored by the railroad companies in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Browning, Bil
Davis, Jerame
Davis, Jerame Joe, 1975-
Browning, William Dale, 1972-
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1972-2015, undated
- Size:
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3.15 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1334
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Bil Browning and his husband, Jerame Davis were activists for LGBT issues, locally in Indiana as well as nationally in Washington, D.C.
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Stewart, Charles, 1927-
- Dates:
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1964 - 1971
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1321
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of twenty-five inkjet prints from original film negatives of John Coltrane and others. The majority of the photographs were taken by Stewart during the December 10, 1964 recording of Coltrane's biggest hit, "A Love Supreme". Some of the images include Coltrane's wife, Alice Coltrane, and others include musicians Pharoah Sand...
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Schiedt, Duncan P.
- Dates:
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1900-2012, undated
- Size:
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65 Cubic feet (124 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1323
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Duncan Schiedt (1921-2014) was a jazz scholar, writer, photographer, film maker, researcher and pianist. He authored four books relating to jazz history. Many of his photographs and articles were featured in magazines, periodicals and documentaries. Schiedt also collected the work of other photographers on the subject of jazz. The collection primarily consists of photographs created by or collected by Mr. Schiedt.
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Somerstein, Stephen
- Dates:
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1965
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12 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1300
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the march of many Americans from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965 during the Civil Rights March. It focuses mainly on photographs and an original book cover from Stephen Somerstein. There are twelve black and white images, 11" x 14", documenting the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March. Some of the photographs inc...
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Downs, Darian
Hall, Joseph Underwood Jr.
- Dates:
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undated
undated
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3 Cubic feet (12 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1317
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily documents the personal life and medical career of Joseph Underwood Hall Jr. Hall was among the first to use the new X-ray technology and built his own X-ray machine.
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DC Cowboys Dance Company
- Dates:
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undated
1994-2012
- Size:
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7.5 Cubic feet (22 boxes, 3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1312
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of the DC Cowboys Dance Company, an all-male, gay, non-profit dance company based in Washington, DC. that was active from 1994-2012. They peformed nationally and internationally live and on television, "celebrating diversity through dance."
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Jogbra, Inc.
Miller, Hinda
- Dates:
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1977-2008
- Size:
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16 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1315
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the invention of the Jogbra and includes biographical materials, business records, photographs, promotional, marketing and advertising materials, correspondence and audiovisual materials.