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Digitized Content Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 6: Moving Pictures and Movie Stars
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Creators:
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Dates:
1911-1986
Size:
42 Flat boxes
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0300.S06
Repository:
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.

Digitized Content Duncan P. Schiedt Photograph Collection
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Creators:
Schiedt, Duncan P., 1921-2014
Dates:
1900-2012, undated
Size:
65 Cubic feet (124 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1323
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Duncan Schiedt (1921-2014) was a jazz scholar, writer, photographer, film maker, researcher and pianist. He authored four books relating to jazz history. Many of his photographs and articles were featured in magazines, periodicals and documentaries. Schiedt also collected the work of other photographers on the subject of jazz. The collection primarily consists of photographs created by or collected by Mr. Schiedt.

Digitized Content William Russo Music and Personal Papers
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Creators:
Strayhorn, Billy (William Thomas), 1915-1967
Claxton, William
Kenton, Stan
Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010
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Dates:
1920-2002
Size:
87 Cubic feet (188 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0845
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers and audiovisual materials documenting Russo's career in music.

Digitized Content Van Phillips Oral History and Papers
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Creators:
Ossur North America
Ott, Katherine
Phillips, Van
Dennis, Maggie
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Dates:
1991-2004
Size:
1.35 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0859
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Video oral history interview of Van Phillips, inventor of the Flex-Foot and other innovative prosthetic feet, conducted by Katherine Ott and Maggie Dennis, February 27, 2004, and design drawings and printed materials regarding prosthetic feet by Van Phillips, Hilary D. Pouchak, and Slobodon Djordjevic.

Digitized Content Larry Zim World's Fair Collection
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Creators:
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Zim, Larry (Larry Zimmerman), 1931-1987
Dates:
1841-1988
Size:
46 Cubic feet (123 boxes and 150 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0519
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Memorabilia of fairs and World's Fairs throughout history, both in the United States and abroad, including photographs, stereographs, panoramas and slides; printed materials; postcards; sheet music; philatelic material; stationery and greeting cards; menus and food service items; posters; shopping bags; motion picture films; and other items.

Digitized Content Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles films
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Creators:
Towles, Joseph A.
Turnbull, Colin M.
Dates:
circa 1950-1972
Size:
Film reels (32,350 ft)
Video recordings
Linear feet
Collection ID:
HSFA.1991.13
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Footage shot by Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles among the Mbuti Pygmies, Zaire and the Ik, Uganda, between 1954 and 1972. Footage documents the nkumbi initiations among the Mbuti, villager-Pygmy interactions; subsistence and daily life among the Ik pastoralists of northwestern Uganda. Supplementary materials: associated texts and annotations (re...

Digitized Content Brooklyn Giglio film
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Dates:
1956
Size:
1 Film reel (15 minutes, color silent reversal; 400 feet, 16mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1984.11
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Footage documenting Giglio or Feast of St. Paulinus, an Italian religious pageant of liberation which originated in Nola, Italy and was recreated in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York by immigrants. Giglio refers both to the ceremonial structure and to the spectacle surrounding its transport through the streets. Included are scenes of t...

Digitized Content Films of the Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency
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Creators:
Dixon, Joseph K. (Joseph Kossuth)
Dates:
1908
Size:
2 Film reels (57 minutes, black-and-white silent)
Linear feet
Collection ID:
HSFA.1983.06
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Collection consists of film footage shot by Joseph Dixon on the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker expedition. Collection also contains associated texts, annotations (recorded narratives), and field notes. Legacy Keywords: Settlement rural ; Procession horse procession ; Costume bridge cloth ; Ceremonies "giveaway" ; Stores general store ; School Catholic gi...

Digitized Content Legal Documents Concerning Slavery Collection
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Creators:
Maynard, Thomas
Dates:
undated
1710-1865
Size:
1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0786
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A collection of a variety of legal documents that relate to slavery and African-Americans.

Digitized Content Francis Wolff Jazz Photoprints
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Creators:
Wolff, Francis, 1907?-1971
Dates:
1953-1966
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1238
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection consists of photographic prints from negatives by the eminent jazz photographer Francis Wolff, depicting such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and other important artists.

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