Administrative Records
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
- Dates:
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FY 1985
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41 cu. ft. (41 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 88-086
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the administrative records of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Robert McCormick Adams, FY 1985. Listings in bold and capital letters indicate both the topic of folder contents and major subheadings from the Secretary's Office file plan.
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Sanger, Carolyn
Wolpe, Eleanor
Wolpe, Allan
- Dates:
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1950-1990.
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7 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0524
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Matchbooks collected with a national focus, from a variety of commercial establishments. Contain verbal and visual advertising.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Van Tassell, A.R.
Jackson, Paul
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1900-1956.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1015
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photograph album documenting the work and life of A.R. Van Tassell, an engineer who worked on structures in Hawaii as well as the Panama Canal.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1831-1984, undated
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40 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S12
- Repository:
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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 12: Plants and Animals contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards plants and animals in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Vasquez, John G.
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1942 - 2005
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0942
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document independent inventor John G. Vasquez. The papers include drawings, sketches, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, and prototypes for two of Vasquez's inventions.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
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1887-1907
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24.38 cu. ft. (43 document boxes) (144 microfilm reels)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 34
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Shortly after Langley became Secretary, a new system of dividing outgoing correspondence into subjects was devised as follows (some of the units are not represented in the Archives, hence the gaps in series numbers): 1) General, 59 volumes, 1892-1907; 2) Museum, 18 volumes, 1892-1907; 4) Ethnology, 7 volumes, 1892-1907; 5) National Zoological ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Special Events and Conference Services
- Dates:
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1988-1997
- Size:
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-221
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of event files documenting special events and conferences at the Smithsonian Institution. The records, with earlier material dating back to the Office of Special Events, primarily include memoranda, guest/participant lists, event summaries, program brochures, photographs, and budget information.
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Pan American World Airways, Inc.
- Dates:
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1930-1965
bulk 1946-1955
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0.07 Cubic feet (2 folders, One 16 x 20 inch black and white print photograph, 59 color slides (35 mm color transparencies))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2009.0013
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 59 Pan American Airways (Pan Am) promotional 35 mm color slides from Howard V. Norton, a Pan Am Sales Representative in Washington, D.C., from 1942-1965 where his duties included promoting Pan Am to travel agents and organizing round the world tour groups. Collection also includes an oversized print of Pan American International Airport in Miami, Florida, taken in 1930.
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1865–1872
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65 Reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAAHC.FB.M1907
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
The collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 65 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M1907. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Mississippi headquarters for the Assistant Commissioner and his staff officers and the subordinate field offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872. The files contain some pre–Bureau record series, dated 1863–1864, that were created by military commanders and U. S. Treasury agents who dealt with refugees and freedmen during the Civil War. These records consist of bound volumes and unbound records, containing materials that include letters sent and received, monthly reports, registers of complaints, and other records relating to freedmen's claims and bounty payments.
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Downtown Gallery
- Dates:
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1824-1974
bulk 1926-1969
- Size:
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109.56 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.downgall
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The records of the Downtown Gallery date from 1824 to 1974 (bulk 1926-1969) and measure 109.56 linear feet. The records present a comprehensive portrait of a significant commercial gallery that operated as a successful business for more than forty years, representing major contemporary American artists and engendering appreciation for early American folk art. There is an unprocessed addition to this collection dating circa 1970 of a single financial/legal document.