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Digitized Content David Grant Noble photographs
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Creators:
Noble, David Grant
Dates:
1970-1971
Size:
140 Gelatin silver prints
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.113
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection contains gelatin silver photographs shot by photographer David Grant Noble that depict Mohawk ironworkers constructing a building in New York City and Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) wild rice harvesting in Wisconsin and Minnesota, 1970-1971.

Digitized Content Amelia Earhart Letter to Joel Schaffer
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Creators:
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937
Dates:
1929
Size:
0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NASM.2013.0010
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) in 1928 was the first woman to fly (as a passenger) across the Atlantic, and in 1932 the first woman (and second person, after Charles Lindbergh) to fly solo and nonstop across that ocean. This item is a letter sent to Joel Schaffer in 1929 by Amelia Earhart which includes a typed listing of books, compiled by New York University Professor Alexander Klemin for the Guggenheim Foundation, on the subject of aeronautics.

Digitized Content John Joseph Honigmann Papers
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Creators:
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978
Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966
Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961
Spier, Robert Forest Gayton
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Dates:
1944-1967
Size:
83 Linear feet
Collection ID:
NAA.1993-15
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The papers of John Joseph Honigmann (1914-1977) consist largely of research material of a specialist in personality, socialization, and social problems of Subarctic and Arctic people. Trained at Yale University (M.A., 1943; Ph.D., 1947), Honigmann spent most of his professional career at the University of North Carolina (1951-77) and was chairman o...

Digitized Content Records
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Dates:
1899-1988 and undated, with material from 1805
Size:
38.22 cu. ft. (39 document boxes) (1 half document box) (5 12x17 boxes) (23 16x20 boxes) (3 3x5 boxes) (oversize materials)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 365
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The records of the National Zoological Park, Office of Public Affairs were for the most part created and maintained by Sybil E. Hamlet, Public Information Officer at NZP for over twenty years. Also included are some general correspondence and memoranda created by Hamlet's predecessor, Marion McCrane. As Public Information Officer, Hamlet was ...

Digitized Content Records
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Dates:
circa 1947-1974 and undated
Size:
6.15 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (1 3x5 box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 424
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting the operation of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, circa 1955-1974. Also included are plans of operation, circa 1947-1960; public inquiries for identification of specimens and information; and glass plate negatives which document the field work of Frederick W...

Digitized Content George Gibbs Papers
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Dates:
circa 1850-1853, 1857-1862
Size:
0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7209
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

Digitized Content Exhibition Records
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Dates:
circa 1955-1990 and undated
Size:
31.73 cu. ft. (31 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box) (1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 363
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This record unit contains a variety of records documenting the planning, design, and production of permanent and temporary exhibitions at the NMNH. It also contains smaller amounts of records concerning exhibitions held at the National Museum of History and Technology, National Air and Space Museum, National Collection of Fine Arts, Anacostia ...

Digitized Content Floyd Alonzo McClure Papers
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Dates:
1913-1970
Size:
10.38 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) (2 16x20 boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession T90028
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of correspondence, research notes, photographs, and diary notes documenting McClure's research. A small amount of personal correspondence and photographs is also included.

Digitized Content James Smithson Collection
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Dates:
1796-1951, circa 1974, 1981-1983
Size:
5.37 cu. ft. (8 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (1 16x20 box) (3 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7000
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The James Smithson Collection lacks a great deal of his original papers. Richard Rush brought Smithson's personal effects to the United States in 1838, along with the proceeds from his estate. A fire in the Smithsonian building in 1865 destroyed many of the manuscripts originally acquired by the Institution. Correspondence among individuals ...

Digitized Content Computer Oral History Collection
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Creators:
Blanch, Gertrude
Bloch, Richard M.
Bradburn, James
Brainerd, John G.
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Dates:
1969-1973, 1977
Size:
43.5 Cubic feet (158 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0196
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Computer Oral History Collection (1969-1973, 1977), was a cooperative project of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and the Smithsonian Institution. This project began in 1967 with the main objective to collect, document, house, and make available for research source material surrounding the development of the computer.

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