Smothers Brothers Collection
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1961-2008
bulk 1960-1990
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12 Cubic feet (30 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1437
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the lives and careers of the Smothers Brothers, with emphasis on their 1960s television variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
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Katzen, Mollie, 1950-
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1972-2002
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5.25 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1434
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes Katzen's notes and notebooks compiled during her writing of The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest.
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Reynolds, Corbett
- Dates:
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1962-2015
bulk 1979-2000
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2 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 16 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1390
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Artwork, photographs, and papers of Columbus, Ohio artist and founder of the Red Party (circuit party) Corbett Reynolds. These papers include materials related to Rudely Elegant, Reynolds's bar and dance club in Columbus.
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Travis, Michael
Lavdas, George
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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
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1950 - 1980
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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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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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Rosenthal, Mel, 1940-
Perry Mapp, Roberta
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circa 1975-2010
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49 Items (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1307
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black-and-white photoprints from two documentary projects: "In the South Bronx of America" and "Refuge". Mel Rosenthal's mission in the Bronx project was to record the deterioration and poverty there. Some photographs from the Bronx project have also been used in the "Refuge" project, because they document immigrants who moved into the Bronx.
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Tompkins, Tim
Meyers, Dan
Helping People With AIDS
Parisella, Neil
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1989-2010, undated
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2.5 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1283
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of Helping People with AIDS, a non-profit, charitable organization located in Rochester, New York that was active 1986-2003.
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Burggraf, Harold L.
Burggraf, Charles J., 1862-1928
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1880-1989.
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2.1 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1250
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Documents, photographs, scrapbooks and photograph albums, relating to Charles J. Burggraf, a photographer active in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at the time of the 1889 flood. Some documents, such as a will, deeds, a baptismal certificate, and similar things, predate the flood. Many of the photographs are studio portraits taken by Burggraf. A few photog...
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Gruppo, Barbara Pease
Rodney W. Pease, III
Piotrowicz, Elizabeth Pease
Pease, L.F.
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1908-1936; undated
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2.33 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1251
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of samples of primarily greeting cards designed and created by the Lillian Pease Card Company.