David Hoffman/Boaz Postcard Collection
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Hoffman, David
Boaz, Joyce
Hoffman, Iris
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1900-1933
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0281
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of 932 postcards with images of African Americans. Most of the postcards are illustrated with stereotypical images of Blacks depicted in drawings, cartoons, and similar forms.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Hinds, Julian, 1881-1975 (civil engineer)
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1881-1975
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14.2 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0287
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A letter dated August 4, 1971 from the Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY, to Julian Hinds stated: "This is addressed to you as an Honorary Member of the Society at the request of the ASCE Committee on the History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering to bring attention to the possibility that you may wish to...
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Morison, George S., 1842-1903
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1846-1903
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30 Cubic feet (61 boxes and 152 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0978
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the career of George S. Morison, a prominent civil engineer, specializing in railroad bridge design. The materials consist primarily of drawings and maps (linen tracings, blueprints, sketches); final bridge reports; photographs; glass plate negatives; daily diaries; correspondence; and published material documenting George S. Morison's participation on the Isthmian Canal Commission, 1898-1903.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1813-59.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0039
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Account book of an unidentified merchant and farmer from New England includes entries for items purchased and sold, and a record of persons employed.
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Kovan, Florice Whyte
Whyte, Virgil (bandleader)
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1942-1948, 1991-1993
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3 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0503
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes 7 VHS videotapes and 1 audio tape produced by Florice Whyte Kovan, containing interviews and recollections by some band members. Studio portraits and snapshot photographs in 3 scrapbooks, which also contain display advertisements and newspaper clippings from about the band, 1940s. Snapshots include documentation of the band's travels and l...
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Tompkins, Tim
Meyers, Dan
Helping People With AIDS
Parisella, Neil
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1989-2010, undated
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2.5 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1283
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of Helping People with AIDS, a non-profit, charitable organization located in Rochester, New York that was active 1986-2003.
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Browning, Bil
Davis, Jerame
Davis, Jerame Joe, 1975-
Browning, William Dale, 1972-
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1972-2015, undated
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3.15 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1334
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Bil Browning and his husband, Jerame Davis were activists for LGBT issues, locally in Indiana as well as nationally in Washington, D.C.
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DC Cowboys Dance Company
- Dates:
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undated
1994-2012
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7.5 Cubic feet (22 boxes, 3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1312
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of the DC Cowboys Dance Company, an all-male, gay, non-profit dance company based in Washington, DC. that was active from 1994-2012. They peformed nationally and internationally live and on television, "celebrating diversity through dance."
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Eng, Miu, 1955-
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1973-1983
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2.1 Linear feet (consisting of 1 oversized box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-102
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The Miu Eng Eastern Wind Collection, which dates from 1973-1983 and measures 2.1 linear feet, speaks to Ms. Eng's role as an activist and artist in Washington D.C.'s early Asian American movement. The collection includes newsletters, photographs, and booklets documenting Ms. Eng's activities with Eastern Wind, a pan-Asian American youth organization formed in 1973 that sought to document and address Asian American issues in the D.C. area. The collection also includes posters designed by Ms. Eng for several D.C. Asian American community programs of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930
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October 25, 1892
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73 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS864
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
In Powell's Introductory volume. Partly filled.