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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Advancement
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2013
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-077
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two websites maintained by the Office of Advancement as they existed on November 1, 2013. The Friends of the Smithsonian website and the James Smithson Society website both provide information about membership programs and list special events for members. The James Smithson Society is the highest level of membership ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Advancement. Smithsonian Women's Committee
- Dates:
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2014
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-081
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two websites maintained by the Smithsonian Women's Committee. The Smithsonian Craft2Wear website and the Smithsonian Craft Show website, both crawled on January 7, 2014, publicize the committee's two annual juried craft show fund raisers. Materials are in electronic format.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Fellowships and Internships
- Dates:
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2013
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-188
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the website of the Office of Fellowships and Internships as it existed on March 22, 2013. The website includes information about fellowship and internship opportunities across the Smithsonian Institution. The website also includes an online version of the publication, Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and S...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Environmental Sciences
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1965-1973
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11.5 cu. ft. (23 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 271
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of files documenting the operation of the Smithsonian Office of Ecology (SOE), 1965-1970, and its successor, the Ecology Program of the Office of Environmental Sciences (OES), 1970-1973. The records were created primarily by administrators Buechner, 1965-1968; Wallen, 1969; and Jenkins, 1970-1973. They include organiz...
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Smithsonian Institution. Meteorological Project
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1849-1875, and related records from 1820
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9.66 cu. ft. (18 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (8 microfilm reels)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 60
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Joseph Henry's first major project for the Smithsonian Institution was his plan to obtain weather reports from a countrywide network of voluntary observers; his plan is detailed in the 1848 annual report of the Institution. Voluminous reports, maps, tables, and charts were prepared and published on all phases of the work--rainfall, snowfall, ...
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Slaughter, Lenora, 1906-2001
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1935-1967
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6 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1227
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of Lenora Slaughter's personal papers dating from 1935-2001. Materials primarily document her reign as director of the pageant, post-retirement activities, and other beauty pageants.
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circa 1966
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2 Prints (color, woodblock.)
8 Drawings (crayon, pencil.)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1988-27
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National Anthropological Archives
This collection consists of two color woodblock prints and eight crayon/pencil drawings made by Inuit residents of Cape Dorset in Nunavut territory, Canada, circa 1966. The prints and drawings depict traditional Inuit subjects, including birds, bears, fish and hunting scenes.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Foundation Company (The).
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1887-1969
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9 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 28 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0974
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records include sketches, drawings, blueprints, contracts, and reports relating to highway and railroad bridges, tunnels, subways, mine shafts, canals and waterways, dams, concrete buildings, concrete construction, derricks and derrick barges, cranes, caissons and caisson construction, air locks, pumps, jacks, engines, and turbines; also phot...
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
United States Fish Commission
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1871-1892
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4.66 Cubic feet (20 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0256
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Most of the collection consists of drawings, both pen and ink and pencil, photoengravings and photographs and blueprints of fish, fishermen, fishing gear, nets, traps, seines, fishing vessels both small and large, and fish processing. Some are identified by type, some by location; others lack specific identification. Many carry comments and direct...
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bulk 1917-1985
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0.41 Cubic feet ((2 boxes and 2)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1994.0018
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of manuals, reports, photographs, drawings, brochures, and other material relating to aircraft propulsion. The following companies are represented: Pratt & Whitney, Armstrong Siddeley, Bristol, Napier, Westinghouse, and Rolls Royce Engines. Besides material on engines and propellers, the collection also contains U.S. Navy D...