Special Services Records
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National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of the Director
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1964-1969
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5.29 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (3 12x17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 320
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of memoranda and correspondence pertaining to the various programs carried out by Special Services; NCFA art collection material; exhibition material; lecture materials; budget; reports; staff biographies; newspaper clippings; magazine articles; radio and television material; tour information; and information on the White...
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National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of the Director
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1912-1965
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28.5 cu. ft. (57 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 312
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 312 was transferred from the National Museum of American Art (NMAA) Archives to the Smithsonian Institution Archives in October 1984. The NMAA Archives, which was created in January 1975, and located in the Fine Arts and Portrait Gallery Building, came under the daily administration of the NMAA, with technical supervision and ...
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National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of the Director
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1892-1960
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22 cu. ft. (44 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 311
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit documents the administration of William Henry Holmes, first Curator of the National Gallery of Art (NGA), 1907-1920, and Director of the Gallery, 1920-1932. To a lesser extent, it also documents the administration of Ruel P. Tolman, Acting Director of NGA, 1932-1937, and the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), 1937-1946, ...
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National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of Exhibition and Design
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1964-1978
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11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 448
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of correspondence, photographs, and slides which document the design and installation of exhibitions at the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) and the Renwick Gallery. Of special interest are records concerning the Patent Office Building (POB) Opening, 1968 and the exhibition America as Art, 1976. The records al...
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National Collection of Fine Arts. Department of Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
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1965-1975
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23.02 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes) (1 microfilm reel)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 315
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records contain exhibition material, including staff research notes on artists and artwork; administrative records concerning the shipment of exhibited artwork, loan correspondence, security and display of the exhibited material, photographs of display items, and installation photographs; staff correspondence including correspondence ...
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National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of Exhibition and Design
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1963-1973
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23 cu. ft. (46 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 314
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include research, correspondence, and photographs concerning the design and installation of exhibitions; information on national art conferences; Harry Lowe's correspondence as curator of exhibits; correspondence with art galleries, museums, and private collectors who loaned art work to NCFA; exhibition schedules and research ...
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National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of Exhibition and Design
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1970-1974
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0.69 cu. ft. (1 16 x 20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-076
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of exhibition posters which were used as indoor signage for exhibitions at the National Collection of Fine Arts and the Renwick Gallery. Exhibitions include H. Lyman Sayen 1875-1918; Jasper F. Cropsey (1823-1900); Romaine Brooks: "Thief of Souls"; Two American Painters: Fritz Scholder and T. C. Cannon; John Marin; ...
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Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005
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1945 (1946)
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84 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2340
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National Anthropological Archives
Original field notes and first draft with illustrations.-W. N. Fenton.
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Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Buck, Joshua
Davey, Robert
Gibson, Simeon, 1889-1943
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1916
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74 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2588
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National Anthropological Archives
Notes on: Proscription following taking the Little Water Medicine (Onondaga text); Josha Buck's list of texts of myths relating to faces (False-faces); text (Acts XVII); Adonwa; Onondaga Bowl Game; footnotes on a text of White Dog Sacrifice (Onondaga); fragment of White Dog Sacrifice announcement (Manuscript by an Indian ?); names of months in Moha...
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Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924
Richardville, Thomas F.
Finley, George W.
Wadsworth, Sarah E.
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April-May, 1909
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8 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1693
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National Anthropological Archives
Translated into Miami by Reverend Thomas Richardville. Also the Lord's Prayer rendered into (1) Peoria, by George Finley; and into (2) Wea by Sarah Wadsworth (Roman Catholic form).