Exhibition Records
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National Museum of American History. Department of Exhibits
- Dates:
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1957-1992
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35.58 cu. ft. (35 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 551
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of exhibition design, production, and installation information including proposals and narratives, scripts, schedules, graphic designs, construction contracts and specifications, floor plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, and photographs. The records also include Department of Exhibits administrative files such as corre...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Armed Forces History
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circa 1952-1989 with related materials from 1883
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14.5 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 94-112
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of exhibition records of the National Museum of American History (NMAH), Division of Armed Forces History, as well as material dating back to the Division of Naval History before it merged with the Division of Military History to form the Division of Armed Forces History in 1985. The records primarily include the s...
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Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
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January and February, 1889
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79 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1459
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Recorded in schedule of John Wesley Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages 1880.
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Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
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June and July, 1889
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111 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1450
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
In schedule of John Wesley Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages. (Approximately 65 microframes.)
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Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company
- Dates:
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1948-1950
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0279
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Engineering drawings (81) of the Centralized Traffic Control Machine electrical circuits of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company (later Norfolk and Western Railway Company). The circuits extend from Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh Junction, Ohio and include those for mechanical controls, electrical signals, and telephone commu...
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Hoffman, David
Boaz, Joyce
Hoffman, Iris
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1900-1933
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0281
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of 932 postcards with images of African Americans. Most of the postcards are illustrated with stereotypical images of Blacks depicted in drawings, cartoons, and similar forms.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Hinds, Julian, 1881-1975 (civil engineer)
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1881-1975
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14.2 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0287
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A letter dated August 4, 1971 from the Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY, to Julian Hinds stated: "This is addressed to you as an Honorary Member of the Society at the request of the ASCE Committee on the History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering to bring attention to the possibility that you may wish to...
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1813-59.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0039
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Account book of an unidentified merchant and farmer from New England includes entries for items purchased and sold, and a record of persons employed.
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Eng, Miu, 1955-
- Dates:
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1973-1983
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2.1 Linear feet (consisting of 1 oversized box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-102
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The Miu Eng Eastern Wind Collection, which dates from 1973-1983 and measures 2.1 linear feet, speaks to Ms. Eng's role as an activist and artist in Washington D.C.'s early Asian American movement. The collection includes newsletters, photographs, and booklets documenting Ms. Eng's activities with Eastern Wind, a pan-Asian American youth organization formed in 1973 that sought to document and address Asian American issues in the D.C. area. The collection also includes posters designed by Ms. Eng for several D.C. Asian American community programs of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930
- Dates:
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October 25, 1892
- Size:
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73 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS864
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
In Powell's Introductory volume. Partly filled.