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Digitized Content Frederic Ramsey audio recordings
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Creators:
Ramsey, Frederic, 1915-1995
Dates:
1945-1959
Size:
8.83 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
CFCH.RAMS
Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

This collection contains open reel recordings made by noted jazz scholar Frederic Ramsey during his tour of the American South in the 1950s.

Digitized Content Duke Ellington Collection
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Creators:
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Dates:
1903 - 1989
Size:
400 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0301
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents Duke Ellington's career primarily through orchestrations (scores and parts), music manuscripts, lead sheets, transcriptions, and sheet music. It also includes concert posters, concert programs, television, radio, motion picture and musical theater scripts, business records, correspondence, awards, as well as audiotapes, audiodiscs, photographs, tour itineraries, newspaper clippings, magazines, caricatures, paintings, and scrapbooks.

Digitized Content Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers
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Creators:
MacDowell, Helen Sandford, 1889-
Pease, L.F.
Prince, Georgiana K., 1861-1915
Sandford Greeting Card Company
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Dates:
1831-2004
Size:
8 Cubic feet (37 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1252
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection documents the business activities of the Sandford Card Company and include the papers of Mary Elizabeth Sandford, founder of the company, and her immediate family.

Digitized Content Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection
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Creators:
Garland, Ed
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941
Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007
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Dates:
1880 - 2010
Size:
42.5 Cubic feet (110 boxes, 12 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1222
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Floyd Levin was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. The collection consists of research materials including biographical files. In addition, there are numerous photographs that were taken and collected by Levin.

Digitized Content Fletcher and Horace Henderson Music and Photographs
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Creators:
Henderson, Horace, 1904-1988
Lewis, Barbara
Lewis, Barry
Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952
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Dates:
1930s-1980s
Size:
22.5 Cubic feet (82 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0797
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Fletcher and Horace Henderson Collection contains original scores and band books, loose sheet music, both original and published, from both Fletcher and Horace's libraries, playlists, lyrics, photographs, personal papers and correspondences, newspaper clippings, jazz publications, an oral history manuscript of an interview with Horace, audio ta...

Digitized Content Bethlehem Steel Corporation Mining Photographs
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Creators:
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Dates:
1880-1993
bulk 1947-1980
Size:
19 Cubic feet (66 boxes )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1242
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection consists of approximately 28,000 photographic negatives, slides, prints and other materials documenting Bethlehem Steel Corporation's iron ore mining operations. The photographs were taken by Richard "Jay" Angelo, a Bethlehem Steel Corporation photographer. The majority of the photographs depict Bethlehem's mining operations at its Cornwall and Morgantown, Pennsylvania mines. A smaller number of negatives document operations in western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan and Ontario. The negatives depict aerial views, blasting operations, tunneling, equipment and infrastructure, machinery, employees working, company personnel, and company-built community facilities. The collection documents the complete operations of a major, historic mining operation over four decades.

Digitized Content The Vanishing Indian
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Creators:
Sioux Super Films
Dates:
circa 1920
Size:
1 Film reel (15 minutes, black-and-white silent, 35mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1977.05
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Incomplete edited film or films from the 1920s educational film series "The Vanishing Indian" produced by Sioux Super Films. Contents include scenes from an Oglala council meeting, a Navajo wedding and shots of hogans, Apache dwellings known as wick-i-ups, pottery making at San Ildefonso Pueblo, dance performance at Taos Pueblo, and shots of dwelli...

Digitized Content John-Manuel Andriote Victory Deferred Collection
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Creators:
Feinblum, Sandi
Fauci, Anthony S.
Fera, Joe
Feldblum, Chai R.
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Dates:
1901-2016
bulk 1995-1999
Size:
10.2 Cubic feet (32 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1128
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

John-Manuel Andriote interviewed numerous individuals involved in the AIDS crisis for his book, Victory Deferred: how AIDS changed gay life in America, this collection contains his interview tapes, transcripts, and materials related to the research, writing, and update of his book. It also contains interview transcripts for Andriote's later book, Stonewall Strong.

Digitized Content Melody Golding Photoprints
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Creators:
Golding, Melody
Dates:
2006-2012
Size:
3 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 5 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1166
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collections documents the work of photographer, Melody Golding and two projects: Hurrican Katrina and Panther Tract. The Hurrican Katrina photographs document some of the devastation along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the towns of Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and Pearlington, Mississippi. The Panther Tract material documents a 2011 book titled ...

Digitized Content Oral history interview with Harold James Brennan
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Creators:
Brennan, Harold James, 1903-1989
Brown, Robert F.
Dates:
1979 Sept. 5 and 1982 Feb. 16
Size:
3 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
36 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.brenna79
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview with Harold J. Brennan conducted 1979 Sept. 5 and 1982 Feb. 16, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

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