New York City Aerial Photographs
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Fairchild Aerial Surveys
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Circa 1929-1931
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0.51 Cubic feet (1 flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0043
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of two scrapbooks containing aerial views of the New York City area with related newspaper clippings.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1911-1986
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42 flat boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S06
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 6: Moving Pictures and Movie Stars forms part of the DeVincent collection. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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1865–1870
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38 Microfilm
- Collection ID:
- NMAAHC.FB.M843
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
This collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 38 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M843. These digital surrogates reproduced the previously un–filmed records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–70. The records consist of 32 volumes and approximately 20 linear feet of unbound records. The volumes include letters and endorsements sent; registers of letters received; telegrams sent and received; special orders, general orders, and circulars; register of persons recommended as inspectors of elections; a register of apprentices indentured; and index books. The unbound series consist mainly of letters received, orders, reports, and freedmen's labor contracts. These documents were created or received by the Assistant Commissioner, the Acting Assistant Commissioner, or either of two staff officers who acted for the Assistant Commissioner.
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 25-July 6, 1986
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1986
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Anacostia Community Museum
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1987
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2.04 Linear feet
19 video recordings (VHS, 1/2")
3 sound recordings (audio cassette)
1 sound recording (open reel, 1/4")
1 video recording (U-matic, 3/4")
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-012
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Contemporary Visual Expressions was a 1987 exhibition on Black American artists of the 20th century. It featured the work of Washington artists Sam Gilliam, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, and Keith Morrison, as well as guest artist William T. Williams of New York City. It was the inaugural exhibition in the gallery space in the new home of the Anacostia Mu...
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Hann, Catherine (Huynh bach Thuy)
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1953-2006
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0921
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to Catherine Hann's life in Vietnam (1953-1981), her flight by boat to Malaysia and stay at Pulau Bidong refugee camp (February --September 1981), her immigration to the United States (September 1981), and her work in Maryland as a circuit board assembler, manicurist and esthetician.
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Thill, Charles
A & P Stores
Devos, Leon, 1897-1974
Greb, George
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1947
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0720
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A sample book containing laminated pages illustrating "Jane Parker" made to order cakes, baked by in-store pastry chefs for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) grocery chain. "Jane Parker" was the house brand of A&P.
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Mauldin, Bill, 1921-2003
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1946-1987
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8 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0307
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection is believed to contain all of Mauldin's published cartoons from 1946 to 1987; also periodical and newspaper articles about and by Mauldin, personal items, including his genealogy, and an original sketchbook used by Mauldin while he was in Vietnam, February 1965.
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Hales, Landy R., 1889-1972
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1908 - 1969
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5.5 Cubic feet (15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0906
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document Landy R. Hales (1889-1972), an inventor and commercial artist who designed window and interior store displays, posters, children's games, and puzzles primarily from 1920s to 1930s in New York City and Baltimore. Of significance is Hales's work for Macy's Department Store. The papers consist of correspondence, patents, business records for several of Hales's companies, photographs, drawings/sketches, prototypes, and newspaper and magazine clippings.
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Kliman, Jeffrey, 1942-
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1993 - 2001
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0.25 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0628
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the District Curators Jazz Arts Festivals held in Washington, D.C. between 1993 and 1998 and the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams' Women in Jazz Series, 1996-2000. The subjects of the District Curators Festivals include the Steve and Iqua Colson Sextet, Sonny Sharrock Band, Don Bryon Quartet, David Sanchez, David Murray...