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Orth, Edward J.
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization
- Dates:
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1835-1992
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130 Cubic feet (417 boxes, 23 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0560
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. Also includes materials on other world's fairs, the Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (ECHO), New York City tourism and Disney.
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Leonard, Eugene O.
- Dates:
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circa 1880-1920
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4 Glass positives
6 Prints and postcards (photogravure)
1 Tintype
100 Negatives (circa, glass)
220 Copy prints (circa)
9 Prints and postcards (cyanotype)
99 Items (99 photomechanical prints and postcards, halftone, color halftone, collotype, photgravure)
1,000 Negatives (circa, nitrate)
734 Photographic prints (circa, silver gelatin, albumen, and platinum (including photographic postcards and cabinet cards))
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.92-3
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Unbound album pages (labeled A through Q) with photographs documenting the people and culture of the Pocatello-Fort Hall area, including Native Americanss (particularly Shoshone-Bannock tribes), agency employees, and missionaries. Included are images of encampments, Sun Dance ceremonies, the Fort Hall Agency, Indian schools and churches, the Run f...
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United States. Department of Agriculture
- Dates:
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1928-1929
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2 Acetate negatives
3 Nitrate negatives
100 Prints (ca. 100 prints: silver gelatin)
120 Prints (ca. 120 glass negatives)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.91-8
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Images of settlements, people (including Negritos), artifacts, agriculture (especially sugarcane), headdresses, tattooing and body marking, members of the expedition, and the expedition's plane. This collection contains photographs by every member of the expedition. Other images are from Frank Hurley's documentary, "Pearls and Savages", or were m...
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D'Rivera, Paquito, 1948-
- Dates:
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1988-2000
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0891
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of three music manuscripts created by Cuban-born musician and composer Paquito D'Rivera and a photograph.
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Sun Ra
Gaskin, Leonard, 1920-
Taylor, Billy
Stokes, W. Royal, Dr., 1930-
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1970-2003
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9.65 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0766
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publicity photographs of musicians and entertainers, mostly jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, but including many rock and even a few classical performers. The collection also contains tape recorded radio interviews conducted between 1970 and 2003. In addition there are posters relating to musical performances.
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Ellis, Estelle
- Dates:
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1942 - 2004
- Size:
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29 Cubic feet (42 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0423
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Estelle Ellis is a pioneer in publishing, advertising, and marketing. She was among the first to focus on the American female demographic, especially teens and working-class women. Condé Nast Publications, Incorporated, Carter Hawley Hale-owned department stores, Phillips-Van Heusen, Dow Chemical, and the Kimberly-Clark Corporation were among her clients. The Papers include business correspondence and proposals, marketing materials, advertisements, and oral history interviews with Ellis.
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Carver, Sonora Webster, 1904-2003
- Dates:
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1891-1994, undated
1891-1994
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3 Cubic feet (8 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0521
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Sonora Carver's career as a diving horse rider and her advocacy work with the Lighthouse for the Blind.
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Purner, Thomas F. (photographer or collector)
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undated
- Size:
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3 Color prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.89-22
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made or collected by Thomas Purner that depict a birch bark canoe and paddles.
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1865–1870
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28 Reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAAHC.FB.M1912
- Repository:
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
The collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 28 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M1912. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Texas Field Offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870, including previous unfilmed records of the Office of the Assistant Commissioner, and records of the office of staff officers and subordinate field offices. These records consist of bound volumes and unbound records, including letters received and endorsements, monthly school reports, and other records relating to freedmen's complaints and contracts.
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Chaney, Charles B.
- Dates:
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1972
1850-1947
undated
1972
1850-1947
undated
- Size:
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21 Cubic feet (92 boxes)
21 Cubic feet (92 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1167
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 20,000 negatives of railroad related subjects with an emphasis on the eastern lines, especially the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Besides locomotives, other subjects include freight trains, passenger cars, bridges and tracks, stations, yards, tunnels, shops and engine houses, and train wrecks.