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Digitized Content Helena M. Weiss Oral History Interviews
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Creators:
Weiss, Helena M., 1909-2004, interviewee
Dates:
1987
Size:
8 audiotapes (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9587
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...

Digitized Content David Challinor Oral History Interviews
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Creators:
Challinor, David, interviewee
Dates:
1999
Size:
27 audiotapes (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9599
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...

Digitized Content Abram Lerner Oral History Interviews
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Creators:
Lerner, Abram, interviewee
Dates:
1998
Size:
4 audiotapes (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9600
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...

Digitized Content Ninfa Valvo papers regarding the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
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Creators:
Valvo, Ninfa, 1900-1993
Dates:
1930-1973
Size:
2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.valvninf
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of curator Ninfa Valvo regarding the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum measure 2 linear feet and date from 1930 to 1973. The papers mostly consist of material related to the de Young Museum in the form of administration records, photographs of exhibition installations and artwork, and museum programs and calendars.

Digitized Content Copy of James N. Edy photograph of Chiefs of the Six Nations explaining their wampum belts
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Creators:
Edy, James N.
Dates:
1871
Size:
1 Copy print
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.86-58
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection consists of a copy of a studio portrait of Onondaga, Mohawk, and Seneca Chiefs with wampum belts, made on September 14, 1871, for Horatio Hale. Includes Joseph Snow (Hahriron), Onondaga Chief; George H. M. Johnson (Deyonhehgon), Mohawk chief, government interpreter and son of John Smoke Johnson; John Buck (Skanawatih), Onondaga chief...

Digitized Content George Eaton Simpson photographs
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Creators:
Simpson, George Eaton, 1904-1998
Dates:
1936-1987
Size:
521 Prints (silver gelatin)
90 Negatives (acetate)
70 Lantern slides
347 Negatives (nitrate)
185 Color slides
4 Prints (Kodachrome color)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.93-14
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection documents George Eaton Simpson's fieldwork in Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Nigeria from 1936-1964. There are 704 images in several formats including negatives, prints, and slides. The photographs were primarily made by Simpson, but a few were made by Frederic Ramsey, Jr. Ramsey's prints are stamped on verso with his name. Many print...

Digitized Content Willard Edwin Graves photographs of Burma
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Creators:
Graves, Willard Edwin
Dates:
1908-1913
Size:
67 Lantern slides
1 Cassette tape
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.75-7
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs depicting government buildings, Christian missions, Buddhist pagodas and monks, Muslim mosques, industry, agriculture, and dances in Burma. People depicted include Chins, Karens, Shans, Burmese, and Methodist missionaries. Some of the handcolored lantern slides are marked by the Christian Lecture Bureau in Chicago and others depict a ma...

Digitized Content George L. Waite "Desert Sheiks" lantern slides
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Creators:
Waite, George L.
Dates:
1930
Size:
47 Lantern slides
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.2010-12
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection consists of 47 lantern slides, some hand‐colored, that appear to have been made to illustrate a talk by Waite entitled, "Desert Sheiks." Images show Algerian nomadic people, their camps, and activities including animal husbandry, Algerian towns and villages, and views of the Algerian countryside. There are also several images of the ...

Digitized Content Antonio Zeno Shindler photographs of Native Americans and agents
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Creators:
Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899
Dates:
circa 1867-1871
Size:
22 Negatives (glass)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.31
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection consists of studio portraits of men, probably Native Americans and Indian agents. The photographs were probably made by Antonio Zeno Shindler, though they may have been made by De Lancey W. Gill, and may relate to those commissioned by William Henry Blackmore.

Digitized Content Thomas F. Purner photographs of Algonquian birch bark canoe
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Creators:
Purner, Thomas F. (photographer or collector)
Dates:
undated
Size:
3 Color prints
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.89-22
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made or collected by Thomas Purner that depict a birch bark canoe and paddles.

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