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Productions
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Creators:
Smithsonian Productions
Dates:
1968, 1980-1985, 1989-1994, 2002
Size:
59.04 cu. ft. (56 record storage boxes) (3.04 non-standard size boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 05-263
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future;" "Coral Reefs: New Discoveries, New Resources;" "Coral Reefs: How to Make Use of 400 Million Years of Evolution;" "Coral Reefs: Understanding Their Passage Through Time;" "Blue Planet;" "Coral Reefs and the Discovery of New Resour...

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[Robinson family travel]
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Dates:
1968-1970
Level:
item
Size:
1 Motion picture film (Duration: 28 minutes, 48 seconds, A compilation reel of smaller reels., Camera original; 8mm; Kodacrome reversal)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0475
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

1. Children at Disneyland (Anaheim, California) July 1968 2. Children swimming at motel while at Disneyland also Marge Ehrler, same of Knots Berry Farm in California July 1968 3. Cape Kennedy, Florida March 1969 4. Children in Gulf (of) Mexico on Sanibel Island, Florida March 1969; also at motel, Port Carlos 5. Children, yard and riding pony at...

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Productions
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
Dates:
1984-1985, 1992
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 09-047
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future" and other films associated with the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Life in the Sea Hall. "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future" is a 60 minute film produced in 1984 and broadcast by PBS. It is a documentary on the complex ...

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Mama Bahama islander [music]
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Creators:
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Cleave, Van
Level:
file
Size:
1 Item (part (photocopy), 31 cm.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0301
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

see ASSAULT ON A QUEEN

1 score

Mama Bahama islander is contained in one of seven folders for "Assault on a queen" consisting of 1 five page short score in Eb Major concert -- in photocopy -- in unidentified hand.

Short score indicates parts for ocarina, bass, drums. -- from the Duke Ellington Library.

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Digitized Content Caroline R. Jones Papers
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Creators:
Jones, Caroline Robinson, 1942-2001 (advertising executive)
Dates:
1942 - 1996
Size:
15 Sound tape reels
4 motion picture films
54 Cubic feet (127 boxes; one oversize folder)
129 Video recordings
70 cassette tapes
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0552
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Caroline R. Jones (1942-2001), an African-American advertising executive, worked for a number of prominent New York ad agencies and and founded her own firm in 1986. She is best known for her work in assisting clients in marketing to minority consumers. The collection includes client files, print advertisements, and radio and television commercials created for a wide range of commercial and public service campaigns.

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Digitized Content Robinson and Via Family Papers
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Creators:
Robinson, Franklin A., Jr., 1959- (actor)
Dates:
1838-2017, undated
bulk 1872-1985
Size:
23.1 Cubic feet (71 boxes, 3 map-size folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0475
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers documenting the farming and family life of the Robinson family of Prince George's County and after 1975, Charles County, Maryland. Papers documenting the farming and family of the Via family of Greene County, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Prince George's and Calvert Counties, Maryland, by 1949.

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Digitized Content Waldo L. Schmitt Papers
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Creators:
Schmitt, Waldo L. (Waldo Lasalle), 1887-1977.
Dates:
1907-1978
Size:
79.56 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (121 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (4 12x17 boxes) (60 3x5 boxes) (3 5x8 boxes) (2 film boxes) (oversize material)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7231
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The papers of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt provide comprehensive documentation of his professional career, 1907-1977. They also illustrate, to a lesser degree, his personal life. Particularly well represented in the papers is material concerning Schmitt's carcinological research, his curatorial and administrative careers at the United States Nat...

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1994 Festival of American Folklife
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
July 1-10, 1994
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.1994
Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

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Digitized Content Miss America 1951 Papers
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Creators:
Sports, Entertainment and Leisure, Division of, NMAH, SI
Betbeze, Yolande
Dates:
1910 - 2003
Size:
4.5 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0888
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Yolande Betbeze was crowned Miss America in September, 1950. During and after her reign she was influential in both the Civil Rights and Feminist movements. Her papers document her reign as Miss America, her life after Miss America, and the Miss America pageant itself.

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Ethel Cutler Freeman papers
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Creators:
Freeman, Ethel Cutler, 1886-1972
Dates:
1934-1972
Size:
61.03 Linear feet (114 boxes)
Collection ID:
NAA.XXXX.0166
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Ethel Cutler Freeman was an amateur Seminole specialist and research associate with the American Museum of Natural History. Her papers also reflect field work among the Arapaho, Shoshoni, Navaho, Pueblo, Hopi, Kickapoo, and people of the Virgin Islands, the Bahama Islands, and Haiti, and the music and chants of Africa, including those of the Maasai, Zulu, and Pygmies. A small amount of material relates to the Hoover Commission on Indian Affairs, of which Freeman was a member. Correspondents include several Seminole Indians and government officials, personal acquaintances, organizations, and associates of the American Museum of Natural History.

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