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Digitized Content Japanese textile workers
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Creators:
Shindler, Antonio(n) Zeno
Dates:
undated
Size:
2 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS87822
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Signed at lower left with Shindler monogram.

Digitized Content Charles Praetorius collection of copies of drawings in the British Museum
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Dates:
1889-1893
Size:
6 Boxes
Collection ID:
NAA.MS316516
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Facsimiles in water color of original illustrations made by John White for Sir Walter Raleigh, now in British Museum. Purchased for the World's Columbia Exposition, 1893.

Digitized Content Aleš Hrdlička papers
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Creators:
Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
Dates:
1875-1966
bulk 1903-1943
Size:
206.71 Linear feet (294 boxes, 138 folders, 9 rolled items, and 4 folios)
Collection ID:
NAA.1974-31
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The papers of Aleš Hrdlička, curator in the Division of Physical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, offer considerable insight into the development of physical anthropology in the first half of this century. The papers include honors bestowed on Hrdlička, autobiographical notes, correspondence with many of the leading anthropologists of the day, anthropometric and osteometric measurements and observations (forming most of the collection), extensive photographs of Hrdlička's field work, manuscripts, research materials, and "My Journeys" (essentially a diary Hrdlička kept of his field work). In addition, there is material of a personal nature. The papers date from 1875 to 1966, but the bulk of the materials date from 1903 to 1943, the time of Hrdlička's career at the USNM.

Digitized Content Solomon Adler Papers
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Creators:
Adler, Solomon, 1901-1989
Dates:
1916-1980
bulk 1950-1966
Size:
4.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1157
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The papers document independent inventor Solomon Adler's work with sewing machine technology through correspondence, photographs, notes, drawings, sketches, patents, litigation records, and printed materials. The collection provides insight into both an independent inventor's process of invention and Japanese work culture during the post-World War II period.

Digitized Content Albertype Company photograph collection relating to Native Americans
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Creators:
Albertype Co.
Dates:
circa 1890-1910
Size:
318 Negatives (circa, nitrate (includes copy negatives))
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.25
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection consists of photographs collected by the Albertype Company for their postcards and viewbooks, including portraits, scenery, camps, Native Americans schools, and some paintings and composites for postcard printing. Additional subjects include rock drawings in Maine; a statue in Kansas City, Missouri; Standing Rock Monument in North Da...

Digitized Content MS 3619 Listings of research projects and field notes of James Mooney, presumably prepared by himself
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Creators:
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Dates:
undated
Size:
23 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3619
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contents: "Ethnological Material of James Mooney." Washington, 1894, 13 pages, typed. "Ethnologic Material of James Mooney--Cherokee, South Atlantic, Kiowa and Southern Plains, Synonymy, Miscellaneous." Washington, January, 1903, 10 pages typed.

Digitized Content Nineteenth Century Actor Photograph Collection
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Creators:
Templin, Roger P.
Dates:
1868-1897
Size:
1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0779
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Photographs of numerous and popular actors of the 19th century.

Digitized Content Fidel Danieli papers
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Creators:
Danieli, Fidel
Dates:
1962-1987
Size:
8.4 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.danifide
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of Los Angeles art critic and writer, art historian, professor, collector, and artist Fidel Danieli (1938-1988) measure 8.4 linear feet and date from 1962 to 1987. Found within the papers are writing and research files, and 108 sound recordings of interviews with or about 45 Los Angeles artists conducted by Danieli in 1974-1975 for the U.C.L.A. oral history project "L.A. Community Artists." There are also sound recordings of art performances and art talks, and printed materials, including numerous exhibition announcements.

Digitized Content MS 2769 Partial Fox texts and translations by Truman Michelson, Bill Leaf, and an unidentified writer
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Leaf, Bill
Dates:
undated
Size:
30 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2769
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Fragments of handwritten Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic texts and English translations. One page of Meskwaki text was authored by Bill Leaf. Five other Meskwaki texts are by an unidentified author. The text beginning "di sa wa tti" is a continuation of a story in MS 2768. The translations are by Truman Michelson and are of Meskwaki texts not present in MS...

Digitized Content MS 1912 Assorted historical texts
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Creators:
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Preston, William Col
Springstone, William
Dates:
undated
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1912
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contains copy of letter dated August 9, 1780, addressed to Col William Preston, relative to a threatened attack by the Indians (Cherokee), signed by Jas. Martin. Also copy of an affidavit by William Springstone, formerly a trader in the Cherokee town of Sciligo (Tciligo) referring to a "treaty" between Raven Chief of the Cherokee and the British Ag...

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